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Learning Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background

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John Ellis (CERN)

Astrophysics · Submitted 17 Feb 1999

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The authors' main claim The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry.

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CitationJohn Ellis (CERN). "Learning Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background." arXiv:astro-ph/9902242 (1999). https://pith.science/paper/ALN7ZLNZ
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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry. The CMB has already enabled defect-based rivals to inflation to be discarded, and will be able to falsify many inflationary models. In combination with other cosmological observations, including those of high-redshift supernovae and large-scale structure, the CMB is on the way to providing a detailed budget for the density of the Universe, to be compared with particle-physics calculations for neutrinos and cold dark matter. Thus CMB measurements complement experiments with the LHC and long-baseline neutrino beams.

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s0 The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry. background 1.00 0.05 0.16 hedged possibility 0.78
s1 The CMB has already enabled defect-based rivals to inflation to be discarded, and will be able to falsify many inflationary models. background 0.58 0.07 0.22 asserted 0.94
s2 In combination with other cosmological observations, including those of high-redshift supernovae and large-scale structure, the CMB is on the way to providing a detailed budget for the density of the Universe, to be compared with particle-physics calculations for neutrinos and cold dark matter. future work 0.35 0.08 0.16 hedged possibility 0.50
s3 Thus CMB measurements complement experiments with the LHC and long-baseline neutrino beams. interpretation 0.82 0.06 0.16 asserted 0.99

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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a precious window on fundamental physics at very high energy scales, possibly including quantum gravity, GUTs and supersymmetry. The CMB has already enabled defect-based rivals to inflation to be discarded, and will be able to falsify many inflationary models. In combination with other cosmological observations, including those of high-redshift supernovae and large-scale structure, the CMB is on the way to providing a detailed budget for the density of the Universe, to be compared with particle-physics calculations for neutrinos and cold dark matter. Thus CMB measurements complement experiments with the LHC and long-baseline neutrino beams.

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