Title:
The Birth of the Universe
The Birth of the Universe
| dc.contributor.author | Efstathiou, George | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Relativistic Astrophysics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | University of Cambridge. Kavli Institute of Cosmology | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-27T14:10:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-04-27T14:10:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-04-07 | |
| dc.description | Presented on April 7, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, room 144. | en_US |
| dc.description | George Efstathiou is the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. His interests are in theoretical and observational cosmology and he has contributed to studies of large-scale structure in the Universe, galaxy formation, dark energy and the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a member of the Science Team for the European Space Agency Planck Satellite, launched in May 2009, which is mapping the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave backround to unprecedented precision. | |
| dc.description | Runtime: 79:23 minutes | |
| dc.description.abstract | Modern physics attempts to explain the full complexity of the physical world in terms of three principles: gravity, relativity and quantum mechanics. This raises important fundamental questions such as why is our Universe so large and old? Why is it almost, but not perfectly, homogeneous and isotropic? I will describe how recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation made with the Planck Satellite can be used to answer these questions and to elucidate what happened within the first split second of the creation of our Universe. The main aim of the lecture is to persuade the audience that we really can test what happened shortly after the birth of the Universe. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.terms | null | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 79:23 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53315 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Distinguished Lecture | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CRA Distinguished Lecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gravity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Planck Satellite | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quantum mechanics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Relativity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Universe | en_US |
| dc.title | The Birth of the Universe | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
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| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Physics | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Center for Relativistic Astrophysics | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Distinguished Lecture | |
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