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SUMMARY:"The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter." 
DESCRIPTION:
 By Katherine Freese\n
 The ordinary atoms that make 
 up the known universe, from our bodies and 
 the air we breathe to the planets and stars, 
 constitute only 5 percent of all matter and 
 energy in the cosmos. The remaining 95 percent 
 is made up of a recipe of 25-percent dark 
 matter and 70-percent dark energy, both nonluminous 
 components whose nature remains a mystery. 
 Katherine Freese will recount the stories 
 of the dark matter puzzle, starting with the 
 discoveries of visionary scientists from the 
 1930s who first proposed its existence, to 
 Vera Rubin in the 1970s whose observations conclusively 
 showed its dominance in galaxies, 
 to the deluge of data today from underground 
 laboratories, satellites in space, and the Large 
 Hadron Collider. Theorists contend that dark 
 matter most likely consists of new fundamental 
 particles; the best candidates include 
 weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) 
 and axions. Billions of them pass through our 
 bodies every second without us even realizing 
 it, yet their gravitational pull is capable 
 of whirling stars and gas at breakneck speeds 
 around the centers of galaxies, and bending 
 light from distant bright objects. This talk 
 will overview this cosmic cocktail, including 
 the evidence for the existence of dark matter 
 in galaxies. Many cosmologists believe we 
 are on the verge of solving this mystery and 
 this talk will provide the foundation needed 
 to fully fathom this epochal moment in humankind's 
 quest to understand the universe.\n
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 Studies Gateway events are free and open 
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 Price: free\n
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