The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know. Episode 18, The Case for Cosmic Inflation
(2022, original release: 2021)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
13178324
LANGUAGE
English
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Unlike the well-founded theories you've studied so far in this series, turn to one that is as-yet-unproven -- but mindboggling in its implications. Cosmic inflation proposes that a period of explosive expansion occurred in the first instants of the Big Bang. This startling idea accounts for two puzzling features of today's universe: the observed uniformity of matter and the flat geometry of space

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Don Lincoln

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2021

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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