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Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological 
> simulations ever run
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-birth-universe-largest-cosmological-simulations.html

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>> Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one
>> of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by
>> scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National
>> Laboratory.
>>
>> The simulation, run on the Titan supercomputer at DOE's Oak Ridge
>> National Laboratory, modeled the evolution of the universe from just
>> 50 million years after the Big Bang to the present day?from its
>> earliest infancy to its current adulthood. Over the course of 13.8
>> billion years, the matter in the universe clumped together to form
>> galaxies, stars and planets; but we're not sure precisely how.
>>
>> These kinds of simulations help scientists understand dark energy, a
>> form of energy that affects the expansion rate of the universe,
>> including the distribution of galaxies, composed of ordinary matter,
>> as well as dark matter, a mysterious kind of matter that no
>> instrument has directly measured so far.
>>
>> Intensive sky surveys with powerful telescopes, like the Sloan
>> Digital Sky Survey and the new, more detailed Dark Energy Survey,
>> show scientists where galaxies and stars were when their light was
>> first emitted. And surveys of the Cosmic Microwave Background, light
>> remaining from when the universe was only 300,000 years old, show us
>> how the universe began?"very uniform, with matter clumping together
>> over time," said Katrin Heitmann, an Argonne physicist who led the
>> simulation.
>>
>> The simulation fills in the temporal gap to show how the universe
>> might have evolved in between: "Gravity acts on the dark matter,
>> which begins to clump more and more, and in the clumps, galaxies
>> form," said Heitmann.
> 


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Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 19:13 -0500
  Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 05:18 +0000
    Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 08:15 -0500
      Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-30 17:03 +0000
    Re: Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run gyansorova@gmail.com - 2015-10-30 14:36 -0700

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