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Panel on Inflation

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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Professor Joe Silk talks with Professor Robert Brandenberger, Professor Jerome Martin, and Dr. Dave Sloan about the current state of research and controversies surrounding inflation.
They discuss the possibility of connecting inflation to string theory and the likelihood of the initial conditions required by inflationary models. This lecture was conducted at the Dennis Sciama Theatre at the Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, on March 14, 2016.

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Series
The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Joe Silk
Robert Brandenberger
Jerome Martin
David Sloan
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
astronomy
inflation
cosmology
string theory
Bayesianism
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 04/04/2017
Duration: 00:22:47

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