2001/08/07 by Michael S. Turner, Turner, Michael S.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0108103
12 pages LaTeX. Contribution to the SNAP Yellow Book (Snowmass2001)
arxiv created 2001/08/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A successor to the standard hot big-bang cosmology is emerging. It greatly extends the highly successful hot big-bang model. A key element of the New Standard Cosmology is dark energy, the causative agent for accelerated expansion. Dark energy is just possibly the most important problem in all of physics. The only laboratory up to the task of studying dark energy is the Universe itself.