{"id":3898,"date":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2008\/11\/11\/observing-the-origin-of-the-universe\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:00:00","slug":"observing-the-origin-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/observing-the-origin-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Observing the Origin of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Ned Wright<\/p>\n<p>In the past century our knowledge about the Universe went from one fact -the sky is dark at night &#8211; to hundreds of facts from the Cosmic MicrowaveBackground, observations of distant supernovae, and baryon oscillations.<\/p>\n<p>We now know the Universe is so big that we can see nearly all the wayback to the origin of the Universe by observing the oldest light in theUniverse,&#8221; which is the CMB.  From this we can infer the processes thatoccurred during the first picosecond after the Big Bang that producedthe seeds that grew to form galaxies and large scale structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3898","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}