We know what was before the Big Bang
Is the Big Bang really the beginning of everything? What was before it? In this episode, we'll talk about Inflation and how the Universe might have started.
My video about Cosmic Horizons
• What are 3 Horizons of the Universe and ca...
My video about Fine Tuning
• WAS THE UNIVERSE CREATED FOR US? Fine-tuni...
My video about “temperature” of the CMB
• SPACE IS NOT COLD! From the Big Bang to Earth
My video about False Vacuum
• How can emptiness destroy the Universe at ...
Cosmological Calculator
https://astro.uchicago.edu/~gnedin/cc/
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Big Bang and the Singularity
12:50 - Problems
22:25 - Inflation
Sources:
The Big Bang
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/p... https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175...
Nucleosynthesis
https://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/...
Scale Factor
https://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/...
Cosmological Calculator
https://astro.uchicago.edu/~gnedin/cc/
Problems
https://s3.cern.ch/inspire-prod-files...
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/...
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/W...
Alan Guth’s Paper
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
Inflation
http://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazona...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0304257.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09934.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05286.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139175...
https://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/or...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/cu...
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases...
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ba...
Alan Guth’s Lecture
• 23. Inflation