Expo/Science & Industry
PAVILION OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
Science Division
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- Radio astronomers, who rely upon computers to process
their observations before they can "see" their results, are developing
innovative tools and techniques to collaboratively control
faraway instruments, form images of the unseen cosmos and analyze them in close to realtime.
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- In 1916 Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity.
It wasn't until much later that most scientists accepted one of the most dramatic
ramifications of his new theory of gravitation: the existence of black holes
from whose extreme gravity nothing, not even light, can escape.
Major advances in computation are only today enabling scientists to simulate
in detail how black holes form, evolve, and interact. Researchers are betting on powerful
gravitational wave detectors, now under construction, to confirm that black holes
actually inhabit the cosmos.
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- Cosmology is the field of science that studies the universe as a whole--its entire history and all that it
contains. No small task! Using supercomputers as "time machines" to travel to the furthest reaches of space and
and time, cosmologists are unravelling how galaxies and galaxy superclusters are born, the nature of mysterious "dark matter" and
the role it might play in determining the ultimate fate of the Universe.
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Industry Division
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Whispers from the Cosmos
Spacetime Wrinkles
Cosmos in a Computer
Modeling the Biosphere (working
title)