The Early Universe by Prof. Alan Guth

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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 summarized the standard Big Bang, cosmic inflation, evidence for inflation, inflation and multiverse, nightmare of dark energy. He also talked about the landscape and environmental selection, anthropic arguments, etc. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

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1. Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I
2. Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse, Part II
3. The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity
4. The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe
5. Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I
6. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II
7. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III
8. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV
9. The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V
10. Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces
11. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes
12. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric
13. Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation
14. The Geodesic Equation
15. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I
16. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II
17. Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III
18. Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I
19. The Cosmological Constant, Part II
20. Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density
21. Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model
22. The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem
23. Inflation