1. Perspectives in cosmology
- Author
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Alexander Vilenkin
- Subjects
Inflation (cosmology) ,High Energy Physics - Theory ,History ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Keynesian economics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Cosmology ,Universe ,Physics::History of Physics ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Physics::Popular Physics ,High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) ,Economics ,media_common ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The "new standard cosmology", based on the theory of inflation, has very impressive observational support. I review some outstanding problems of the new cosmology and the global view of the universe -- the multiverse -- that it suggests. I focus in particular on prospects for further observational tests of inflation and of the multiverse., Invited talk at TAUP conference, Rome, July 2009
- Published
- 2022