The effort to connect microphysics and macrophysics in order to
better understand the origin and evolution of the Universe on its
largest scales, and to probe the nature of the forces that govern
its behavior on fundamental scales.
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Map of models showing the unfolding of the universe as a function
of the energy density of matter and the cosmological constant.
From "Cosmological Antigravity", by Lawrence Krauss, Scientific
American, January 1999.
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