# Our Astronomical Future

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Chris Lintott
- Year: 2026
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Astronomy and space
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/astronomical-future)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-astronomical-future/5f0e438cf0e2) (Audio)