{"id":40454,"date":"2011-10-16T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T15:45:02","slug":"cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"CERN Lectures on Cosmology and Particle Physics | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s a blast from the somewhat-recent past: a set of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cdsweb.cern.ch\/record\/794317\">five lectures I gave at CERN in 2005<\/a>.  It looks like the quality of the recording is pretty good.  The first lecture was an overview at a colloquium level; i.e. meant for physicists, but not necessarily with any knowledge of cosmology.  The next four are blackboard talks with a greater focus; they try to bring people up to speed on the basic tools you need to think about modern early-universe cosmology.  <\/p><p>Obviously I&rsquo;m not going to watch all five hours of these, so I&rsquo;ll just have to hope that I&rsquo;m relatively coherent throughout.  (I do remember being a bit jet-lagged.)  But I do notice that, while it was only a few years ago, I do appear relatively young and enthusiastic.  Ah, the ravages of Time&hellip;<\/p><p><strong>Lecture One: Introduction to Cosmology<\/strong><\/p><p><span><\/span><\/p><p><strong>Lecture Two: Dark Matter<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Lecture Three: Dark Energy<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Lecture Four: Thermodynamics and the Early Universe<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Lecture Five: Inflation and Beyond<\/strong><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yu5237gmprFvq4neWpJHX8wVrws\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d502_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Yu5237gmprFvq4neWpJHX8wVrws\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d502_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d502_3VNjKAMldNY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3d502_mXfTzlWEDb0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s a blast from the somewhat-recent past: a set of five lectures I gave at CERN in 2005. It looks like the quality of the recording is pretty good. The first lecture was an overview at a colloquium level; i.e. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cern-lectures-on-cosmology-and-particle-physics-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}