Paper: astro-ph/0511197
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:00:16 GMT (146kb)

Title: Seeing Darkness: the New Cosmology

Authors: Eric V. Linder

Comments: plenary talk at TAUP2005; to appear in Journal of Physics; 7 pages
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We present some useful ways to visualize the nature of dark energy and the
effects of the accelerating expansion on cosmological quantities. Expansion
probes such as Type Ia supernovae distances and growth probes such as weak
gravitational lensing and the evolution of large scale structure provide
powerful tests in complementarity. We present a ``ladder'' diagram, showing
that in addition to dramatic improvements in precision, next generation probes
will provide insight through an increasing ability to test assumptions of the
cosmological framework, including gravity beyond general relativity.

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