Space: Its light, Its Shape

News:

The final project talks will be Wednesday evening! 6 PM in Benedict 201

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Extras:

• A baby picture of a young galaxy and a portrait of a mature spiral galaxy. Both are Hubble Space Telescope images.

• A large collection of notes on the CMB and cosmology, with some useful pictures, may be found on the page by Tony Smith.

• For Monday April 25 read the Scientific American article posted on Wayne Hu's website.

• To parallel transport a vector on a sphere have a look at this demo by John Sullivan at the University of Illinois.

• At the end of the course you will complete a project. We have collected a few ideas. Enjoy!

• Here's a cool demo on the expanding flatland universe - shows there's no center.

• In lab we used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to view the spectra of galaxies. Start with the Sky Server Notebook.

• To construct a bit of hyperbolic space - triangles! (Fig 10.2)

• Here is the 'colourable' view of cubes (Fig. 7.9)

• Jeff Weeks has a site devoted to the Shape of Space: http://www.geometrygames.org/SoS/

• Can a ZDO determine the length of the King? Yin's Notes 1

• And what if sound travels in 2D? Yin's Notes 2

• The rules of chess may be found at: http://www.uschess.org/beginners/letsplay.php

• The rules of checkers may be found at: http://www.chesslab.com/rules/checkersrules.html