Multiple Universes and Cosmic Inflation: The Quest to Understand Our Universe (and Find Others)
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May 18, 2011 Dr. Anthony Aguirre (University of California at Santa Cruz) Our improving understanding of the cosmos points to an early epoch during which the universe expanded at a stupendous rate to create the vast amount of space we can observe. Cosmologists are now coming to believe that this "cosmic inflation" may do much more: in many versions, inflation goes on forever, generating not just our observable universe but also infinitely many such regions with similar or different properties, together forming a staggeringly complex and vast "multiverse". Dr. Aguirre traces the genesis of this idea, explores some of its implications, and discusses how scientists are seeking ways to test this idea.
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At 7:18 consistent model, no serious conflicts with data... Creationist and believers in biblical miracles are in awe for the unbelievable things scientists have to come up with to make their models work...
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time to rethink now the bump bruise has been found bubbles it is, awesome news & cross Moore's law with seti technology & soon in our lives
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a lot of ideas of cosmologists about Big Bang, inflation is called educated guess. But all this multiverse bubbles thingie can be plain called "educated fantasies". That's not serious. It is not a science. Dreaming and fresh and extravagant thinking is welcomed, but guys, who pays you money? provides grants for these pure fantasies and "science-like" fiction? Not verifiable ever? Not falsifiable ever?
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I wonder since they say that inner space looks a lot like outer space,that our infinite universe is an illusion ,and we are just subatomic particles inside some kind of inner space .Which means our reality is just a region inside some kind of energy field which could be observed through somebody else's microscope,or something's.i know it's probably a crazy idea but what the hell.
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Did I miss it? What is "that"(physical entity, space, whatever) where the universe is expanding into? In other terms, in"what" our universe is expanding into?
@13:40 this gentleman says that all galaxies move away from each other. Now that is not true when we compare our galaxy and Andromeda galaxy which appear to approach each other. Now this is the first exception to the rule, and perhaps the phenomenon is not unique in the universe.@22:35 Dr. Anthony Aguirre says "turn the clock back" Is the clock measuring time ? But do we have a definition of time? Does Eistein anywhere in his work defines what time and space is? -
One of the best lectures I have seen. Thanks a lot
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I have tuned into a lot of cosmological stuff and this is one very worth the time.
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This guy lives in a bubble. This is why I call this people "the bubbling idiots"
"Another Universe" can only exist for those bubbling idiots whom don't even know what the word Universe means. -
what if these "bubbles" were not dispersed spacially, like in all those diagrams, but also overlapping or even co exist in the same spots, producing effects in each others spheres/continua? i.e. certain questions, like dark matter, vacuum energy. ? I am sure this has already been considered, but i am not a scientist. still thought i might ask the community.
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Great presentation. He delivers lot of unique information and ideas.
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we all are observer, Eistein maybe was the best but I think in a wrong boat with holes maybe next Eistein will be a observer and placed in the best boat
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If the latest discovery of BICEP results is confirmed by other experiments ( which appears likely and soon ) this is huge. How huge you ask? The observable Universe is, AT LEAST, one million times larger than we can see with light depending on when inflation ended ( Which doesn't appear likely that it ever did according to the maths) . Don't even ask how large it could really be. Think of infinity within infinity within infinity etc etc all coming from nothing. Mind Blown!
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didn't he mean the recently discovered gravitational (and not gravity) waves at the end? it's late and I'm not going to research the difference between the two now, maybe do it tommorow. otherwise nice lecture.
boy, that Indian accent was thick lol -
1:28:35 He mixed up dark energy and dark matter answering the question, the answer to the question was yes, period. Otherwise good lecture.
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sigh ... until you can explain how the speed of light is constrained to be a constant ... inflation is speculative.
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in some other universe I killed the whole rothchild family with a knife..
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great lecture
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