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Lecture 22: The Planck Time---The Present Limit to All Knowledge

Lecture 22: The Planck Time---The Present Limit to All Knowledge. Astronomy 5: The Formation and Evolution of the Universe Sandra M. Faber Spring Quarter 2007 UC Santa Cruz. Cosmic history in 4 easy steps. Graphics from WMAP team. Two giants of modern cosmology.

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Lecture 22: The Planck Time---The Present Limit to All Knowledge

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  1. Lecture 22: The Planck Time---The Present Limit to All Knowledge Astronomy 5: The Formation and Evolution of the Universe Sandra M. Faber Spring Quarter 2007 UC Santa Cruz

  2. Cosmic history in 4 easy steps Graphics from WMAP team

  3. Two giants of modern cosmology Andre Linde: Eternal Inflation Alan Guth: Inflation

  4. Eternal inflation posits inflating universes budding out of inflating universes

  5. The landscape of eternal inflation: graphs show energy density in “inflaton” field

  6. Eternal inflation at higher resolution The laws of physics may be different in each colored domain Our Universe is one of the valleys that is not inflating.

  7. Calabi-Yau spaces: Attempts to “draw” the 11-dimensional space of string theory in three dimensions

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