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A Singular Beginning
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How Well Do We Know Our Universe? by Jayant Narlikar
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- 1 Date: Mon, 19 August 2019, 15:00 to
- 2 How well do we know our universe?
- 3 Some ancient ideas
- 4 The Norse World Tree
- 5 The hierarchical universe
- 6 Pythagorean Counter-Earth...
- 7 Enter...Science
- 8 The decreasing importance of Man on the Earth
- 9 A second demotion...?
- 10 Where is the Galactic Centre?
- 11 Is our Galaxy alone in the universe?
- 12 Are all these nebulae in the Galaxy?
- 13 Majority View as expressed by Agnes Clerk
- 14 The majority view turned out to be wrong: The Third Demotion!
- 15 Cosmological Revolution
- 16 Hubble's Law 1929
- 17 Standard Cosmology
- 18 Explanation of the expanding universe
- 19 All models predicted that the universe originated in a "Big Bang"
- 20 A Singular Beginning
- 21 What is Big Bang?
- 22 1946-48: George Gamow used the aspect of the early universe that it was very hot
- 23 The last scattering surface, however, places a limit on how far or how early a universe we can observe.
- 24 The very early universe
- 25 Time temperature/energy relationship
- 26 Astroparticle Physics
- 27 Inflation
- 28 Theories and Speculations
- 29 The status of inflation
- 30 Some epicycles of modern cosmology
- 31 If dark matter out to be wholly baryonic, it will pose problems for the big bang, e.g., too little primordial deuterium, large scale structure would create too large fluctuations today in the radiat…
- 32 Emperor's New Clothes?
- 33 A plea to the cosmologists: Please treat the subject as open with some room for alternative ideas...
- 34 Q&A
