CERN Colloquium

Cosmology as Science?: From Inflation to Eternity

Name: Cosmology as Science?: From Inflation to Eternity
Start: 2009-08-28T16:30:00+02:00
End: 2009-08-28T17:30:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University)

Friday Aug 28, 2009, 4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Europe/Zurich

Auditorium** (CERN)

Auditorium**

CERN

Description

The last decade or two have represented the golden age of observational cosmology, producing a revolution in our picture of the Universe on its largest scales, and perhaps also its smallest ones. I will argue that these recent development bring to the forefront some vexing questions about whether various fundamental assumptions about the universe are in fact falsifiable. I will focus on 3 issues: (1) "Proving" Inflation, (2) Dark Energy and Anthropic Arguments, and (3) Cosmology of the far future.

Organized by

Luis Alvarez-Gaume / PH-TH --------------------------- **Tea and Coffee will be served at 16:00

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Cosmology as Science?: From Inflation to Eternity

by Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University)

Auditorium**

CERN