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Inflationary Cosmology—Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse with Professor Alan Guth ’69, PhD ’72
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English - February 07, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCourses Education Technology mit alumni slice massachusetts institute technology research cambridge authors boston Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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MIT professor Alan Guth ’69, PhD ’72 pioneered the theory of cosmic inflation: a period of rapid expansion that occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. And he also supports the idea that our universe is just one of many in a much larger multiverse.
“What we call the Big Bang Theory is really just a theory of the aftermath of some kind of a bang,” Guth says. “And inflation is a possible answer to what propelled this expansion. It's based on the idea that gravity itself can, under some circumstances, act as a repulsive force instead of an attractive force.”
Read the transcript to the lecture on the Slice of MIT blog:
https://alum.mit.edu/slice/podcast-inflationary-cosmology-our-universe-part-multiverse