How Well Do We Know Our Universe? by Jayant Narlikar

How Well Do We Know Our Universe? by Jayant Narlikar

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Inflation

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How Well Do We Know Our Universe? by Jayant Narlikar

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

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