For the first time, cosmologists have harnessed enough computing power to simulate the action of gravity on matter over a huge volume of space, beginning 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

 

References: 

Evrard, A.E. 1998. Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. June. San Diego, Calif.

 

Further Readings: 

Cowen, R. 1998. Living with lambda. Science News 153(May 30):344.

 

Sources:

August E. Evrard
University of Michigan
Department of Physics
1049 Randall Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Richard Mushotzky
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mail Code 662
Greenbelt, MD 20771