Published in Nature Astronomy 4, 122-123 (2020).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12350


COMING OF AGE OF THE STANDARD MODEL

Roger Blandford 1, Jo Dunkley 2, Carlos Frenk 3, Ofer Lahav 4 and Alice Shapley 5

1 Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2 Department of Physics and Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
3 Institute for Computational Cosmology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK
4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK
5 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA


Abstract: Cosmology now has a standard model - a remarkably simple description of the universe, its contents and its history. A symposium held last September in Cambridge, UK, gave this model a 'health check' and discussed fascinating questions that lie beyond it.

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