Table of contents

Title

Slide 2

Friedmann equation

Matter

Radiation

Dark matter

Omega

Dark energy

Effects of DE

Spatial Curvature

CMB

SNe

Concordance

Pie

Preposterous

Cosmological Constant problem

Slide 17

Coincidence problem

Evolving Pie

Slide 20

Slide 21

True vacuum

False vacuum

Anthropic principle

Quintessence

Slide 26

Conclusions

Author: Sean Carroll

E-mail: carroll@theory.uchicago.edu

Homepage: http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/