Cosmology@home |
A Universe in your PC: Cosmology@home seeks to learn how the physical universe took it's shape. Towards that end, the project is distributing large numbers of "simulation packages", each a simulated universe with assumptions about the geometry of space, particle content, and "physics of the beginning". Results of these simulations will be compared to real-world observations, in order to see which (if any) of the initial assumptions best match the world in which we live. In order to produce meaningful results the project needs to run millions of these simulations (or to get stupendously lucky), so your help is essential.
- Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Start Date: March 2007
- Results: for publication
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Videos
"God, The Universe, and Everything Else" - Interview with Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, and Arthur C. Clarke
The Science of Cosmology
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Cosmology@home
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Results
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Links of Interest
Wikipedia
Cosmology@home in the Classroom
Are you a science educator? Please take a look at -- and please contribute to -- Volunteer Computing in the Classroom and Cosmology@home in the Classroom.
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