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Inflation After Planck

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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Professor Jerome Martin (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) explains the current state of evidence for inflationary models.
He describes the variety of inflationary models, and discusses how Bayesian statistical methods apply to this space of theories. This lecture was conducted at the Dennis Sciama Theatre at the Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, on March 14, 2016.

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Jerome Martin
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
cosmology
astronomy
inflation
Bayesianism
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/04/2017
Duration: 00:48:38

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