Conveners
Standard & Alternative Cosmologies and String Implementations: Scott Dodelson, Shamit Kachru, Paul Steinhardt
- Michael Turner (Convener)
- Discussants (Eva Silverstein, Dick Bond, Liam McAllister, and Tom Banks)
Description
<font color=darkblue>Cosmic inflation is the standard paradigm of modern cosmology. String theorists have been implementing inflationary cosmologies in the past 10 years. Although everybody seems to agree that inflation requires extreme and ad-hoc (almost improbable) initial conditions, and produces a multiverse with uncertain predictions, theorists seem to have very different takes on what are the right ways to think about alternative paradigm(s) while observers are looking for ways to test the inflation paradigm. </font>
