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Cosmology Workshop 2008

George Smoot welcomes workshop participants and discusses the Relics of Creation

 


Laurie Kerrigan shows students how to use Hands-on-Universe (HOU) website to look for asteroids

 


Students calculating the Hubble constant

 

Eric Linder discusses the vagaries of Dark Matter

 


Glen Melnik and students learn about the history and fate of the universe through the Universeadventure.org poster

 


Students look through light diffraction grating slides - rollover image to see what happens to light through the diffraction slide

 


Students learning about parallax

 


Using parallax to measure distance


Rich Lohman explaining parallax measurement exercise to students


 


Stu Luken discusses cosmic rays

 


Students presenting their method to determine distance using light


 


Presentations on how to find distance using light

 


Rollie Otto shows students how lenses bend light rays

 


Students share the joy of cosmology

 

Mia Ihm demonstrates the curvature of space due to gravity

 


Rodger Johnson explains the design and function of a cosmic ray detector

 

 

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