Hertz Lecture 2017 | Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?

by Prof. Alan Guth (MIT Cambridge (USA))

Wednesday 27 Sept 2017, 18:00 → 19:30 Europe/Berlin

DESY Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Inflationary cosmology gives a plausible explanation for many observed features of the universe, including its uniformity, its mass density, and the patterns of the ripples that are observed in the cosmic microwave background. Beyond what we can observe, most versions of inflation imply that our universe is not unique, but is part of a possibly infinite multiverse. The lecture will describe the workings of inflation, the evidence for inflation, and why the speaker believes that the possibility of a multiverse should be taken seriously. Hertzt Lectures: http://www.desy.de/news/lecture_series/hertz_lectures/index_eng.html