Is That Inflation Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Walkabout the Galaxy

English - May 26, 2017 14:54 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 109 ratings
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You may think of inflation as prices creeping higher, but to a cosmologist it's been an important idea to explain why the universe is so uniform on very large scales in every direction we look. But does inflation pass muster as a testable scientific theory? The astroquarks review what inflation is all about as there is renewed discussion in the scientific community about the theory and its predictions. Plus, nerd news and the Great American Eclipse.