holographic principle and the surface of last scatter
holographic principle and the surface of last scatter
holographic principle and the surface of last scatter
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The most important observational advance in<br />
cosmology, since <strong>the</strong> early studies <strong>of</strong> cosmic expansion<br />
in <strong>the</strong> 1920’s ,was <strong>the</strong> dramatic <strong>and</strong>,<br />
at that time, surprising discovery, in <strong>the</strong> waning<br />
years <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> twentieth century, that <strong>the</strong> expansion<br />
rate is accelerating. This was first announcedinFebruary1998,<br />
basedon<strong>the</strong>concordance<br />
<strong>of</strong> two groups’ data.<br />
Many subsequent experiments concerning <strong>the</strong><br />
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Large<br />
Scale Structure (LSS), <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r measurements<br />
have all confirmed <strong>the</strong> 1998 claim. We may<br />
<strong>the</strong>refore adopt <strong>the</strong> position, that <strong>the</strong> accelerated<br />
expansion rate is an observed fact.<br />
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