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The Nature of the Universe |
Joseph Silk describes the scientific foundations of modern cosmology.
P. James E. Peebles describes how cosmologists
need more information before being really confident
that the true nature of our universe is known.
Michael Turner uses one of his famous colorful viewgraphs to describe how we might have, for the first
time, a full accounting of all the energy-density in the universe.
Moderator Margaret Geller discusses issues of astronomical
importance with James Peebles.
Organizers Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell confer on the side "about
how things are going." Eventually
they agree that "things are going well."