1. Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I
MIT 8.286 The Early Universe, Fall 2013 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-286F13 Instructor: Alan Guth In this lecture, the professor talked about ...
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that case we can jump into the early universe. So on the opening slide
here I have a picture of the Planck satellite,
which is a satellite that was launched a few years
ago dedicated to measuring the cosmic background radiation. Cosmic background
radiation is really our biggest clue for the
early history of the universe. The Planck satellite is
actually the third satellite to go up completely dedicated to
measuring the cosmic background radiation. The first was calle...