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EXPLORING THE MOST UNKNOWN UNIVERSE
Around 95 per cent of the universe is still a mystery with unknown exotic particles and new forces awaiting discovery.
Throughout human history, we have built an incredible body of knowledge about the universe around us.
We have devised beautiful mathematical formulae that describe the cosmos at its most fundamental level. We have powerful telescopes that can see very old galaxies and the beginnings of new ones.
We know how the universe began, yet the data we have amassed in both particle physics and astronomy tells us that we still only know about a tiny fraction of the universe.
Looking at the sky, we observe that on the largest scales, matter is organised into galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
Galaxies contain stars, planets and gases. All the visible universe – the Earth, Sun, stars and galaxies, everything that makes ‘us’ – is made of protons, neutrons and electrons bundled together into atoms.
Physicists have developed an impressive body of knowledge about the fundamental particles and forces that characterise the ordinary matter around us.
CTTO: Professor Elisabetta Barberio, University of Melbourne
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