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The 4-Percent Universe

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by Richard Panek


  linoleum tube: Rubin AIP.

  Her second-floor: Rubin 1997, p. 203.

  the stars appeared: Rubin AIP.

  She memorized: Lightman and Brawer, p. 286.

  in high school: Rubin AIP.

  At a certain point: Lightman and Brawer, p. 286.

  [>] had shown her: Rubin AIP.

  "Rotating Universe?": Gamow 1946.

  Then she heard: Rubin AIP.

  data on the 108: Rubin 1951, p. 47.

  Then she separated: Rubin AIP.

  When an admissions: Irion, p. 960.

  [>] When a Cornell professor: Rubin AIP.

  her paper: Rubin 1951.

  it was a master's thesis: Rubin AIP.

  "Young Mother": "Young Mother Figures Center of Creation by

  Star Motions," Washington Post, Dec. 31, 1950.

  such a novice: Rubin AIP.

  "at first sight fantastic": Gamow 1946.

  29 She didn't even think: Rubin AIP.

  She was standing: Rubin.

  Her husband shared: Lightman and Brawer, p. 289.

  [>] No wives: Rubin 1997, p. 187.

  taken the job: Rubin AIP.

  Rubin had visited: Rubin. Every time she visited: Rubin.

  [>] embarrassed her: Rubin 1997, p. 189.

  his own lecture: Gingerich.

  two kinds of geniuses: Lightman and Brawer, p. 294.

  "Is there a": Rubin AIP.

  "On a large": Rubin 1997, p. 198.

  [>] she had received: Rubin 1997, p. 199.

  "From an analysis": de Vaucouleurs, p. 30.

  a thick German: Rubin AIP.

  [>] her thesis: Rubin 1954.

  went on a tour: Rubin 1997, p. 87.

  "Galaxies may be": Rubin AIP.

  motions of 888: Rubin 1997, p. 116.

  [Footnote] When the editor: Rubin.

  [Footnote] the resulting paper: Rubin et al. 1962.

  galactic anticenter: Rubin 1997, p. 157.

  [Footnote] "This," the astronomer: Rubin 1997, p. 156.

  [>] visit her friend: Rubin.

  "He couldn't have": Rubin.

  She said she could: Rubin.

  had the choice: Rubin.

  she noticed that: Rubin.

  [>] Instead, it converted: Bartusiak, p. 208.

  the instrument reduced: Rubin 2006, p. 8.

  On the whole: Lightman and Brawer, p. 295.

  [>] She needed to find: Lightman and Brawer, pp. 295–96.

  "Within a galaxy": Rubin 1997, p. 1.

  rather than pushing: Rubin 1997, p. 89.

  37 he needed: Rubin 1997, pp. 131–32.

  [>] a graduate student: Faber AIP.

  3. CHOOSING HALOS

  [>] [Footnote] The name: Peebles 1969, p. 18.

  CDC 3600: Peebles 1970, p. 15.

  many magnitudes: Overbye 1992, p. 142.

  security detail: Finkbeiner.

  300 points: Peebles 1970, p. 13.

  [>] felt that the field: Peebles 1999, p. 1067.

  [>] "Gravitation and Space Science": Dicke and Peebles.

  early March 1965: Dicke and Peebles, p. 419.

  a note in proof: Dicke and Peebles, p. 460.

  Dicke handled: Peebles.

  in the introduction: Dicke and Peebles, p. 419.

  In the first paragraph: Dicke and Peebles, p. 442.

  "The moral of this section": Dicke and Peebles, p. 454.

  this paper ran: Peebles 1965.

  [>] During one presentation: Boynton, p. 303.

  "The radiation": Peebles 1969, p. 20.

  "distributions of mass": Peebles 1965, p. 1317.

  In the fall semester: Peebles.

  [>] "The great goal": Peebles 1974, p. vii.

  "You measure": Peebles AIP.

  a "candidate": Peebles, 1974, p. x.

  "the very broad": Peebles 1974, p. xi.

  [>] Jeremiah Ostriker: Ostriker.

  [>] For the first simulation: Peebles.

  In 1933: Zwicky 1933.

  "a great mass": Smith, p. 23.

  "The discrepancy seems": Rubin 2003, p. 2.

  [>] Peebles himself had regarded: Peebles.

  "the halo masses": Ostriker and Peebles, p. 467.

  [>] "There are reasons": Ostriker et al., p. L1.

  Just brilliant: Rubin.

  Peebles hardly noticed: Peebles.

  such intense hostility: Lightman and Brawer, p. 275.

  [>] "well discussed": Rubin et al. 1973, p. L111.

  "The results": Rubin et al. 1973, p. L111.

  two papers: Rubin et al. 1976a, 1976b.

  She didn't like: Rubin.

  She would say: Lightman and Brawer, p. 305.

  above the entrance: Rubin.

  Besides, she and Ford: Ford.

  52 In 1978 Ford: Rubin et al. 1978.

  In 1975 Roberts: Rubin 2003, p. 5.

  A 1978 survey: Bosma.

  that radio observations: Peebles.

  that optical data: Lightman and Brawer, p. 303.

  [>] "Is there more": Faber and Gallagher, p. 135.

  "After reviewing": Faber and Gallagher, p. 182.

  "many astronomers": Rubin 2003, p. 3.

  left most astronomers: Rubin 2003, p. 3.

  "Nobody ever": Overbye 1992, p. 307.

  "recognizing that": Rubin 1983, p. 1344.

  4. GETTING IN THE GAME

  [>] first director of the center: Sadoulet.

  [>] "that all the particles": http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10350/10350–8.txt.

  [>] "And so that": Newton, p. 940.

  "the small velocities": Einstein 1917, p. 26.

  "at present unknown": Einstein 1917, p. 24.

  [>] "probably a number": Baade, p. 287.

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1981/.

  [>] "We are an": Muller.

  One day Alvarez: Muller.

  had planted: Colgate et al., pp. 565–66.

  [>] University of Wisconsin: Colgate et al., p. 572.

  FORTRAN: Colgate et al., p. 572.

  Alvarez looked up: Muller.

  [>] Year after year: Muller.

  Science courses: Perlmutter.

  [>] pair of paleontologists: Raup and Sepkoski.

  The following year: Davis et al. 1984.

  his thesis: Perlmutter 1986.

  the two projects: Perlmutter.

  [>] In 1981: Kare et al.

  Muller himself: Muller.

  Pennypacker commissioned: Newberg.

  70 "they are rare": Perlmutter et al. 1995b, p. 2.

  already testing: Perlmutter.

  From 1986 to 1988: Kirshner, pp. 168–70.

  [>] For the members: Perlmutter.

  The contractor: Newberg, p. 23.

  without a filter: Newberg.

  [>] take the computer: Newberg, p. 18.

  Before long: Perlmutter.

  [>] Every few months: Perlmutter.

  "Look, two": Muller.

  Newcomers: Goobar.

  One graduate student: Kim AIP.

  A postdoc: Goobar.

  And then Pennypacker: Pennypacker.

  [>] Muller thought: Muller.

  Perlmutter stayed: Perlmutter.

  [>] began to think: Pennypacker.

  [>] Ellis snapped: Perlmutter.

  On August 29, 1992: Ellis.

  5. STAYING IN THE GAME

  [>] Nicholas Suntzeff: Suntzeff.

  Schmidt mentioned: Schmidt.

  [>] in Suntzeff's experience: Suntzeff.

  "How long": Schmidt.

  Schmidt disappeared: Garnavich.

  [>] privately review: Ellis.

  publicly write: Kirshner, pp. 170–71.

  serve as referee: Kirshner, p. 185.

  to know photometry: Kirshner, p. 185.

  [>] In the 1980s: Kirshner, pp. 180–81.

  In 1989, Muller: Kirshner, pp. 178–80.

  [>] "You must understand": Sandage 19
87, p. 3.

  "Essentially": Walter Sullivan, "A Yardstick for the Universe?" New York Times, Oct. 9, 1984.

  at least two classes: Kirshner, pp. 37–38, 160–62.

  [>] three supernovae: Kirshner.

  [>] including Kirshner: Uomoto and Kirshner.

  "There is still": Newberg, p. 13.

  84 a "realist": Kirshner, p. 167.

  In his role: Kirshner, p. 183.

  "They hadn't": Kirshner, p. 190.

  In high school: Suntzeff.

  [>] "There are only": Suntzeff.

  influential article: Sandage 1970.

  [>] as a "preliminary": Hubble 1936, p. 20.

  "plates of Moses": Overbye 1992, p. 27.

  [>] Suntzeff and Sandage: Suntzeff.

  He had lost: Sandage.

  [>] Suntzeff was already: Suntzeff, Phillips.

  [>] Mario Hamuy: Hamuy.

  Bruno Leibundgut: Leibundgut.

  [>] The correlation: Phillips.

  [>] He wrote some: Schmidt.

  [>] The first night: Leibundgut.

  [>]-pixel-by-16-pixel: Schmidt.

  [>] Late that night: Leibundgut.

  6. THE GAME

  [>] The Berkeley team: Perlmutter.

  [>] "demonstration runs": Perlmutter et al. 1995b, p. 4.

  "pilot search": Newberg, p. 105.

  seemed oblivious: Kirshner, p. 183.

  "No!": Joel Primack, "UCLA Eighth International Symposium on

  Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the

  Universe," Marina del Rey, Feb. 20–22, 2008.

  had demonstrated: Phillips.

  [>] The team often: Perlmutter.

  They called it: Perlmutter et al. 1995, p. 4.

  [>] "'I just heard'": Kirshner.

  "working together": Kirshner.

  "dimness": Riess et al. 1996, p. 90.

  [>] "I've spent": Leibundgut.

  "Crap!": Suntzeff.

  [>] "on the smell": Schmidt.

  "anarchy": Suntzeff.

  [>] 1994 proposal: Riess.

  a reminder: Leibundgut.

  The paper: Leibundgut et al.

  "We can only": Suntzeff.

  105 No big guns: Suntzeff.

  Mario Hamuy: Hamuy.

  [>] Hamuy's: Hamuy et al., p. 1.

  Riess's: Riess et al. 1995, p. L17.

  "How could I": Hamuy.

  [>] Everyone in astronomy: Overbye 1992, p. 188.

  Even Sandage: Suntzeff.

  "The answer": Overbye 1992, p. 278.

  He had received: Suntzeff.

  [>] Hamuy himself: Hamuy.

  "We have to": Phillips.

  "as if blood": Suntzeff.

  that paper: Riess et al. 1995b.

  "I'm a staff astronomer": Suntzeff.

  [>] "Yeah": Suntzeff.

  His argument: Kirshner.

  And not only: Schmidt.

  [>] apply for time: Leibundgut.

  To make the situation: Suntzeff.

  [>] In January 1996: Perlmutter.

  [>] The high resolution: Kirshner, p. 203.

  A month later: Perlmutter.

  proposal came up: Kirshner.

  He had served: Perlmutter.

  began to object: Kirshner.

  into his office: Kirshner, Phillips, Suntzeff.

  [>] Maybe they all: Suntzeff.

  Bob Cahn: Cahn.

  [>] help justify: Garnavich.

  announced the results: Perlmutter et al. 1997.

  Gerson Goldhaber: Goldhaber.

  Adam Riess: Riess.

  7. THE FLAT UNIVERSE SOCIETY

  [>] On Monday evenings: Rex Graham, "Deep-Dish Cosmologists," Astronomy, June 2001.

  DuPage County: Kolb, Turner.

  The classroom: Graham, "Deep-Dish Cosmologists."

  "backup" hamburgers: Turner.

  The topics: Graham, "Deep-Dish Cosmologists."

  121 classes sometimes: Turner.

  "less than elegant": Kolb.

  Cheechand Chong: Turner.

  Oreos-and-beer: Anton, p. 103.

  "I don't believe": Perlmutter.

  "butchers its young": David H. Freeman,

  "Particle Hunters," Discover, Dec. 1991.

  Don't be afraid: Turner.

  [>] soon dropped out: Steve Nadis, "The Lost Years of Michael Turner," Astronomy, Apr. 2004.

  Turneraudited: Turner.

  [>] "Why don't you": Nadis, "Lost Years of Michael Turner."

  "That early-universe": Turner.

  this lesson: Turner.

  His colleagues: David Overbye, "Remembering David Schramm, Gentle Giant of Cosmology," New York Times, Feb. 10, 1998.

  [>] but the combination: Turner.

  In October 1981: Guth 1998, p. 223.

  "< 1 sec.": Guth 1998, p. 223.

  He figured: Turner.

  [>] "assumes certain": Guth 1998, p. 223.

  Late in the evening: Guth 1998, pp. 167–87.

  [>] The suggestion followed: Guth 1998, pp. 12–14.

  "Is the Universe": Tryon, pp. 396–97.

  [>] "the universe is": Guth 1998, p. 15.

  Guth realized: Guth 1998, pp. 167–87.

  [>] At three minutes: Smoot and Davidson, p. 161.

  [>] "Yeah," Guth thought: Guth.

  Guth's paper: Guth 1981, pp. 347–56.

  Seventeenof the: Wilczek 1985, p. 475.

  [>] Guth's original idea: Guth 1998, pp. 202–10.

  In1973 Hawking: Overbye 1992, pp. 111–15.

  [>] "traveling circus": Guth 1998, p. 211.

  In early 1982: Guth 1998, pp. 211, 215–18.

  "informal discussion": Guth 1998, p. 223.

  day trips: Guth 1998, p. 232.

  croquet and tea: Turner.

  "a workshop where": Turner.

  Duringhis talk: Guth 1998, p. 231.

  "Child's play": Turner.

  132 the summer of 1981: K. Turner, p. 12.

  [>] tour de force: Burbidge et al.

  [>] logo that showed: Kolb et al., back cover.

  T-shirts: Kolb et al., p. 2.

  organized a jog: Overbye 1992, p. 214.

  "Buffalo Class": Kolb et al., p. 626.

  "Cosmology in the": Kolb et al., p. 622.

  "Whatever future": Kolb et al., p. 625.

  "Perhaps future": Kolb and Turner, p. 498.

  "Despite being": Kolb and Turner, p. xix.

  [>] against a bar: Graham, "Deep-Dish Cosmologists."

  In 1976: Smoot and Davidson, pp. 117–43.

  [>] "the superclustering phenomenon": Davis, p. 111.

  survey of galaxies: Geller and Huchra.

  [>] "frothy": Davis et al. 1982, p. 423.

  John Mather: Mather and Boslough, p. 225.

  Or not: Glanz 1995.

  [>] He wanted to know: Turner.

  [>] Swearingen SW-3: Eric Pace, "David Schramm, 52, Expert on the Big Bang," New York Times, Dec. 22, 1997.

  Turner said: Turner.

  8. HELLO, LAMBDA

  [>] Perlmutter had flown: Anton, p. 115.

  seatback phone: Perlmutter.

  ina paper: Perlmutter et al. 1998.

  [>] "For the first time": Kathy Sawyer, "Universe Will Keep Expanding Forever, Research Teams Say," Washington Post, Jan. 9, 1998.

  ata table: Perlmutter.

  foran hour: Anton, p. 116.

  Michael Turner: Turner.

  the panels: http://www.supernova.lbl.gov/.

  [>] "Dave would have": Dennis Overbye, "Remembering David

  Schramm, Gentle Giant of Cosmology," New York Times, Feb. 10, 1998.

  [>] "hypothetical and": Bondi and Gold, p. 263.

  [>] published a paper: Petrossian et al.

  "the most plausible": Gunn and Tinsley.

  agree that a model: Turner.

  Among them was: Wilczek 1985, p. 479.

  145 Wilczek ended: Wilczek 1985, p. 480.

  work on a paper: M. Turneret al. 1984.

  Turnerlik
ed to say: Turner.

  "heart of hearts": Finkbeiner, p. 320.

  prided himself: Ann K. Finkbeiner, "Once Upon the Start of Time," The Sciences, Sept./Oct. 1992, p. 10.

  [>] "What's best": Finkbeiner, "Once Upon the Start of Time," p. 8. had emerged: Peebles.

  a1983 paper: Davis and Peebles.

  "High mass": Peebles.

  Theirconclusion: Davis and Peebles.

  "we lose the": Peebles 1984, p. 444.

  "It's ugly": Finkbeiner, p. 319; Turner.

  "It's an addition": Finkbeiner, p. 319.

  "Considering the observations": Finkbeiner, p. 320.

  The paper met: Peebles.

  [>] "WHY A COSMOLOGICAL": Carroll et al., p. 501.

  "The Observational Case": Ostriker and Steinhardt.

  Turneragain: Krauss and Turner.

  witha joke: Glanz 1996, p. 1168.

  On one side: Kirshner 2002, p. 193.

  [>] "(for Λ = 0)": Kim et al., p. 4.

  "(for Λ = 0)": Perlmutter et al. 1995a, p. L42.

  "If we assume": Goldhaber et al., p. 7.

  subject of a paper: Goobar and Perlmutter.

  their assumption: Goobar.

  that's what Perlmutter: Perlmutter.

  "This could be": Overbye 1996, p. 1428.

  "jugular science": Overbye, "Remembering David Schramm."

  "I don't think": Glanz.

  "I am anxiously": James Glanz, "Accelerating the Cosmos," Astronomy, Oct. 1999.

  submitted their data: Perlmutter et al. 1997.

  [>] a can-do: Perlmutter.

  OnJune 30: Nugent.

  [>] submitted its paper: Perlmutter et al. 1998.

  [>] "suggests that matter": Garnavich et al., p. L53.

  GersonGoldhaber: Goldhaber.

  "Perhaps the most": "SCP Meeting Notes, 1997 October 08."

  153 "antagonistic": Goldhaber.

  Incase: Perlmutter.

  The two of them: Riess.

  [>] "Adam is sloppy": Schmidt.

  developeda routine: Riess.

  signed their e-mails: Michael Anft, "Chasing the Great Beyond," Johns Hopkins Magazine, February 2008.

  you're Stephen Hawking: Riess.

  the phone would ring: Schmidt.

  was a graduate student: Riess.

  [>] Alex Filippenko: Filippenko.

  Hedisliked: Filippenko.

  [>] "Man": Filippenko.

  [>] By January 4: Riess.

  When Pete Garnavich: Garnavich.

  That evening: Riess.

  [>] "Perlmutter bowled": Sawyer, "Universe Will Keep Expanding Forever." had written about: Glanz 1995.

  "perhaps boosted": Glanz 1997.

  "a quantum-mechanical": Glanz 1998a.

  [>] Filippenko would be: Filippenko.

  [>] "evidence": Anton, p. 117.

  9. THE TOOTH FAIRY TWICE

  [>] He was walking: Turner.

  in 1976: Dennis Overbye, "Remembering David Schramm, Gentle Giant of Cosmology," New York Times, Feb. 10, 1998.

  [>] broke the story: Glanz 1998b.

  "a preponderance": Glanz.

 

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