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 reviewed gravitational effect of pressure and talked about age of universe and the cosmological constant, etc. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

Tracks in this Playlist

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