Cosmology's Mad Idea: Inflation and the Creation of Our Universe
Professor of Astrophysics
50:48·2026·undergraduate level·Public Colloquium
An astrophysicist unpacks the compelling yet radical theory of cosmic inflation, examining its origins, observational evidence, and profound implications for our understanding of the universe's earliest moments.
Our expanding Universe only makes sense if, early on, it expanded rapidly in a period of cosmic inflation. In this lecture, we consider the evidence for this apparently arbitrary idea, and asks whether we are on the brink of finding inflation’s signature in our observation.
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