Lambda-CDM model (no politics or religion)

The ΛCDM (Lambda cold dark matter) or Lambda-CDM model is aparametrization of the Big Bang cosmological model in which the universe contains a cosmological constant, denoted by Lambda (Greek Λ), associated with dark energy, and cold dark matter (abbreviated CDM). It is frequently referred to as the standard model of Big Bang cosmology because it is the simplest model that provides a reasonably good account of the following properties of the cosmos:

• the existence and structure of the cosmic microwave background
• the large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies
• the abundances of hydrogen (including deuterium), helium, and lithium
• the accelerating expansion of the universe observed in the light from distant galaxies and supernovae

The model assumes that general relativity is the correct theory of gravity on cosmological scales. It emerged in the late 1990s as a concordance cosmology, after a period of time when disparate observed properties of the universe appeared mutually inconsistent, and there was no consensus on the makeup of the energy density of the universe.

The ΛCDM model can be extended by adding cosmological inflation,quintessence and other elements that are current areas of speculation and research in cosmology.

I think we are still missing one of the biggest parts of all this.  We still do not have a unification theory, which I think is important to any theory like the big bang.

How can we accurately describe the nature of our observable universe without reconciling the behavioral differences between the Macro wold and the Micro world.

Can we really  surmise something when we have separate parts acting so differently?

We speculate about the behavior of the macro world without considering the behavior of the micro world, but the two are forever intertwined.  Every Macro object consist of trillions upon trillions of micro objects.  We cannot explain the nature or behavior of the shell without consideration of it's smaller parts

Laz what's that star the size of 100 of our suns, or whatever? 

String theory may help to merge micro/macro worlds. 

I have a question. When 'they' talk about the Hubble telescope and the information gathered they refer to that as looking back in time and often speak very 'matter of factly' about the fact that they are looking back in time. Obviously this is not possible. They are looking at modern day information. Why is this considered looking back in time? 

It's considered looking back in time because the light from most of the star are dead, it just takes the light so long to reach us the in these cases the star doesn't exist currently.

So a star 500 million light years away when we see thee star we are looking at the star the way it was 500 million years ago and not the light from the star currently.

What's really cool is the fact that what we can see is known as the observable universe, so we really have no idea how big the universe really is and we try to figure out things using the best guesses we have.  Think of it as standing on a mountian with a telescope and yo ulook out as far as you can.  So lets say if you are in the Rocky's you can see all the way to New York.  While that's the limit of what you can see you know there are places further than New York.  

So from where you stand to the limit of what you can see wouuld be the observable universe, but you know there exist more out there than what you see.

however, the light could have been redirected every which way until the time we saw it. 

According to the theory of cosmic inflation, the universe is at least 10^23 times larger than the size of the observable universe.

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