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Three-Year WMAP Results Released!

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Today is an exciting day: the WMAP collaboration (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) has “released its three year data and data analysis”:http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/current/map_bibliography.cfm. I’ve just started looking through their results, but there is no doubt the precision cosmology they were able to do three years ago is even more exciting now! Recall that last time they released results, they became the the conclusive, precision evidence that the universe is indeed dominated by dark matter and dark energy, and not the normal matter we know so much about. That was a revolution in our thinking about this universe.

Related posts:

  1. Charm Jets are Tricky Bastards
  2. The Last Shifts – No End to the Thrills!
  3. From the dungeon to the cosmos
  4. LIGO, VIRGO, and February 11, 2016

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I am a husband, son, and physicist. I am Research Group Manager in the Research Division at SNOLAB and a Professor of Physics at Queen's University. I like to do a little bit of everything: writing, running, biking, hiking, drumming, gardening, carpentry, computer programming, painting, drawing, eating and sleeping. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I love to spend time with my family. All things written in here are my own, unless otherwise attributed.

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