Theory Challenges of the Accelerating Universe
arXiv:astro-ph/0610173 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/40/25/S14
Abstract
The accelerating expansion of the universe presents an exciting, fundamental challenge to the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. I highlight some of the outstanding challenges in both developing theoretical models and interpreting without bias the observational results from precision cosmology experiments in the next decade that will return data to help reveal the nature of the new physics. Examples given focus on distinguishing a new component of energy from a new law of gravity, and the effect of early dark energy on baryon acoustic oscillations.
10 pages, 4 figures; minor changes to match J. Phys. A version
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