Science Matters: Modeling a Virtual Universe

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Michael Warren started modeling the origins of the universe, as he puts it, as an undergraduate at Caltech in 1987. Seventeen years later, he is still at it.

Times have changed. The universe as we understand it today, with invisible dark matter and dark energy, isn't what it once was. The physics might be trickier, but computers are much faster.

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Science Matters: Modeling a Virtual Universe

All things considered, says the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher, computational astrophysics has made serious strides in the last decade.

Modeling the universe is no small ...

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