Speaker
Andrei Linde
(Stanford University)
Description
I will describe basic principles of inflationary cosmology, the problem of initial conditions in the early universe, and a profound role of quantum effects in formation of the global structure of the universe. This will include a discussion of the impossibility to observe the Big Bang, and of the important difference between the universe and the Schrodinger cat. Then I will describe some of the better motivated inflationary models, their predictions, and their observational status.
Primary author
Andrei Linde
(Stanford University)
