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The Question That Keeps Cosmologists Awake at Night

Why does the universe exist this way?

Dark energy, inflation, the values of the constants, the matter-antimatter imbalance. The open questions in cosmology are not footnotes. They are most of the page.

Infographic: The Question That Keeps Cosmologists Awake at Night

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Major cosmological questions include dark energy, cosmic inflation, the values of fundamental constants, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and why the universe permits complexity.

Expected concepts

  • ?What is dark energy, and why is the expansion accelerating?
  • ?Why is there more matter than antimatter?
  • ?Why do the constants of nature have the values they do?

Citation requirements

When this report is written, every measured or inferred claim will ship with a source and a confidence badge. No exceptions.

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