{
  "id": "astro-ph/9811447",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-11-27T20:29:21.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-11-27T20:29:21.000Z",
  "title": "Cosmology Solved?",
  "authors": [
    "Michael S. Turner"
  ],
  "comment": "13 pages LaTeX including 4 eps figures. To be published in Proceedings of the 49th Yamada Conference: Black Holes and Relativistic Astrophysics (Kyoto, Japan; April 1998), ed. N. Sugiyama (Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, Japan)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "For two decades the hot big-bang model as been referred to as the standard cosmology -- and for good reason. For just as long cosmologists have known that there are fundamental questions that are not answered by the standard cosmology and point to a grander theory. The best candidate for that grander theory is inflation + cold dark matter; it can extend our understanding of the Universe back to 10^-32 sec. There is now prima facie evidence for the two basic tenets of this new paradigm: flat Universe and scale-invariant spectrum of Gaussian density perturbations, and an avalanche of telling cosmological observations is coming. If inflation + cold dark matter is correct, then there are new, fundamental questions to be answered, most notably the nature of the dark energy that seems to account for 60% of the critical density and how inflation fits into a unified theory of the forces and particles. These are exciting times in cosmology!",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-11-27T20:29:21.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "cold dark matter",
      "standard cosmology",
      "grander theory",
      "fundamental questions",
      "prima facie evidence"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 481688,
      "adsabs": "1998astro.ph.11447T"
    }
  }
}