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    Michael S. Turner: âDark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Starstuff We Are Made Ofâ

    Michael S. Turner: “Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Starstuff We Are Made Of”

    Presented by Colorado College at Colorado College - Packard Hall

    February 2, 2012

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    The sky is filled with hundreds of billions of galaxies, all lit up by their stars. However, stars account for less than one percent of the material in the universe, and galaxies are held together by a new form of matter — dark matter — that accounts for one-third of the stuff in the universe. The other two-thirds exists in an even more mysterious form — dark energy — which is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, rather than slow down and controls its destiny. Though invisible to telescopes, the dark side of the universe has shaped what we see today and controls our destiny.

    Michael S. Turner is a theoretical astrophysicist and the Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is also director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at Chicago, which he helped to establish.


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        Colorado College - Packard Hall

        5 W. Cache La Poudre St.
        Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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        Info Phone: 719-389-6607

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        February 2, 2012

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        7:30 p.m.

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