Assignment 5
Due: 2017 June 1


Click on the link to find the discoveries Science News considers the Top 10 Cosmological Discoveries of all time. Discovery 4, primoridal gravity waves (BICEP2 2014) has since been retracted.


1. Do you agree with the members of this list? Do you agree with the ordering? Support your answers with cogent arguments.

2. Based on this class, are there discoveries you would delete and replace with others? Ask yourselves, in 100 years what will be the considered the most important discoveries concerning the Universe? Again support your answers with cogent arguments.

3. From this list, which of the discoveries could be made in the Universe of the future as described in The End of Cosmology?, by Krauss and Sherrer?

4. The list does not consider our place in the Universe. If we were to consider our place in the Universe, are there discoveries you would add to to the list? If so, which results would you consider adding and why.