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7. THE AGENDA 10 YEARS FROM NOW: A BIFURCATED COMMUNITY?


7.1. The Next Five Years

The current pace of advance is such that within five years we'll surely have made substantial further progress. We will not only agree that the value of H is known to 10 percent - we'll agree what that value is.

We'll know the key parameters (from high-z supernovae, from the CMB, from high-z observations, and from improved statistics on large scale clustering and streaming. I'd even bet (though maybe I'm being a bit rash here) that we'll know what the dominant dark matter is.