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Our Astronomical Future

Professor Chris Lintott · Gresham College

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Our expanding Universe only makes sense if, early on, it expanded rapidly in a period of cosmic inflation. In this lecture, we consider the evidence for this apparently arbitrary idea, and asks whether we are on the brink of finding inflation’s signature in our observation.As the story moves from theorist's blackboards to desert observatories, and from the cosmos’s first moments to the far future, we question the nature of the Universe, its eventual fate and even the form of scientific enquiry itself.

Lectures

  1. Cosmology’s Mad Idea: Inflation & the Creation of Our Universe 2026-09-23 · Audio

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Chris Lintott
Year
2026
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
Gresham College
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