Science of SLAC, A Deep Look for Dark Energy: Science and Discovery with the LSST
Today we understand matter in a comprehensive way: molecules made of atoms, atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons, protons and neutrons made of quarks and gluons, and quarks and leptons found in three generations. But normal matter makes up only 4 percent of the matter and energy in the universe. Much of the rest consists of an energy associated with space itself, known as dark energy, that cannot be seen directly and whose nature remains largely unknown. To learn more we must study the portion of t
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