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BY^ABEWACjGONER
Special to The Battalion
to
discuss
revolution
Will the universe eventually slow
down and then collapse? For many
cosmologists, this question dominat
ed astrophysical research during the
20th century.
But, thanks largely to the work of
astronomers Wendy Freedman and
Robert Kirshner, scientists now agree
that the universe will not stop ex-
pandingand then collapse back in on
itself injP^Big Crunch.”
Ins Bp, its expansion will contin
ue indefinitely.
Freedman and Kirshner, who
study the expansion of the universe,
are at the frontiers of modern cos
mology.
The pair will speak at Texas A&M
in Rudder Theater at 10 a.m.on Fri
day as part of an iwonomv sympo
sium. The symposium is open to the
public.
“These speakers tux perhaps the
two most famous active astronomers
in the world. Their studies have to do
with where the universe came from
and where it’s going,” said Dr.
Roland Allen, Texas A&M professor
of physics. “This is as fundamental as
anything in science.”
Two important components make
up the study of the universe’s expan
sion — the velocity at which it oc
curs, referred to as the Hubble Con
stant, and its acceleration.
Freedman, director of the Hubble
Key ProjectJ|||P used the Hubble
Space Telescope to accurately mea
sure the I kibble Constant.
Kirshner, of the Harvard-Smith-,
sonian Center for Astrophysics, isl
part of a team that analyzed superno
va explosions across the universe to
show that the universe's expansion is
accelerating.
11 the universe is picking up spg|m
as it expands, instead of slowuB
down as had been previously been
thought, it raises the question of what
force is causing it to accelerate.
(jfiytece ordinary matter is pulled
IdgnTier by gravity, tending to decel
erate the universe, there must be
some mysterious form of ‘vacuum
energy' that has the opposite effect.
This vacuum energy is also called the
cosmological constant. Its origin is
one of the greatest mysteries in sci
ence,” Allen said.
Some scientists have proposed
that the energy comes from invisible
dark matter, which they say makes up
most of the mass of the universe.
Freedman and Kirshner will
speak on universal expansion as part
ot a joint meeting of the Texas sec
tions of the American Association of
Physics Teacher.s, the American
Physical Society, and the Society of
Physics Students. Allen said the
symposium is an effort on the part of
the A&M physics department to en
hance students’ interest in general
astronomy.
Picture taken Jan. 11 -13, 2000 t J||hg the Hubble Space Telestjjjpe’s Wide Field
and Planetary Camera 2. Two bil J^Kight-years away, this massive cluster of galax
ies called Aljj^ll 2218 acts as a g^p ational lens, bending light waves and magnify
ing and brightening them.
This stellar magnifying glass allows astronomers like Wendy Freedman and Robert
Kirshner to look at galaxies that could not be normally seen with the largest tele
scopes available.
Photo courtesy NASA
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