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Over the past decade two subfields of science, cosmology and elementary-particle physics, have become married in a symbiotic relationship that has produced a number of exciting offspring. These offspring are beginning to yield insights on the creation of spacetime and matter at epochs as early as 10^43to 10^35 second after the birth of the universe in the primordial explosion known as the big bang. Important clues to the nature of the big bang itself may even come from a theory currently under development, known as the ultimate theory of everything (T.O.E.). A T.O.E. would describe all the interactions among the fundamental particles in a single bold stroke.
The confluence of cosmology and particle physics is even changing the way science is done. Traditionally astronomy has been an observational rather than an experimental science, in which passive observations were made with telescopes and actively controlled experiments have been virtually unknown. Traditionally the tools of particle physics have been high-energy accelerators. Now that cosmology has begun to make predictions about elementary-particle physics, it has become conceivable that those cosmological predictions could be checked with carefully controlled accelerator experiments. It has taken more than 10 years for accelerators to reach the point where they can do the appropriate experiments, but the experiments are now in fact in progress. The preliminary results confirm the predictions from cosmology.
It appears therefore that cosmology has become a true science in the sense that ideas not only are developed but also are being tested in the laboratory on time scales that are shorter than a scientist's lifetime. This is a far cry from earlier eras in which cosmological theories proliferated and there was little way to confirm or refute any of them other than on their aesthetic appeal. Conversely, telescopes may eventually be employed to test ideas from fundamental physics, such as proposals for a T.O.E. Indeed, tests of theories involving interactions of particles with enormous energies could very well have only one available laboratory: the big bang itself.
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