Inflationary cosmology on trial

Watch video of the Seyfert Lecture featuring Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor in Science and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University.

Steinhardt, who is also on the faculty of both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, spoke at Vanderbilt March 17, 2011. He is the author of over 200 refereed articles, six patents, and three technical books. In 2007, co-authored Endless Universe: The Big Bang and Beyond, a popular book on contemporary theories of cosmology.

This talk introduces an alternative to the standard big bang model that challenges conventional ideas about space, time and the evolution of the universe.

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[daverowbotham]

Why bother with youtube? If you are right all you need do is write a peer reviewed paper and sit back and await your Nobel and riches :D

[Seán O'Nilbud]

Your understanding is faulty, pay more attention.

[Oleksandr Fialko]

He has come out with an original idea. He does not follow the well established rules. My respect. He is one of the rare scientists still alive.

[Gary Clifford Gibson]

-excerpt from 'The Universal Widget- 'A Universal widget of all possible forms pre-existing time might apply retro-causality to all things that be or become. In eternity it would always exist evolving omniscience.

-a paradigm for the unconditional beingness of God illustrative of the birth and history of God eternally? Yet a new omniscient Universal widget being could arise anywhere or anytime creating problems of dual occupancy of existential null-space.

[TheTruthAlwaysAddsUp]

And your understanding is not faulty, right?

I won't be so subtle.To say that normal matter makes up 4% of everything in the known universe leaving 96% dark energy/matter which can't be seen or detected in the real world is called a 96% fudge factor. That is not science that is a religious belief rather you like it or not.

You people need to go to the ThunderboltsProject channel and see what plasma physics is telling us about the electrical universe which by the way has been around for 100yrs

[Michael Ordoukhani]

I agree with you 100%. I studied astronomy 22 years ago and have been obsessed with just clarifying the fundamental assumptions physics and they do not link together. They are making stuff up to fill the gap and Neil Bohr called questioning (visualizing) subatomic world a blasphemous. I think Science becomes religious in this case. I still haven't heard a unifying and clear explanation of how do anything come to into existence.

[Rdchannels]

Science is fun

[james deroc]

nice talk . .he is very clear about the assumptions in the theory

[carlo sgroi]

Q-et. al. E=MC^2 (the flip side) where energy can manifest into matter. When you increase the energy state of particles, e.g. like the LHC in Geneva to approx. speed of light, they become heavier (more massive). Now, regardless if using an LHC or just increase the energy state of an atom, does the atom increase in mass during a positive energy gain & in contrast, if the atom losses energy does it lose mass. Understood, that photons emitted are massless & the Higgs field works on matter not light

[scar3tactic]

I feel the reason that these theorys fall short, or fail as is said, is because there seems to be a lack of accounting for transitions. He says that dark energy appeared later, so what did it transmute from? If it fails, what is the extension of dark energy when it is no longer dark energy? These theorys hold sway but there is no mediumship perceived between intervals, like the whitening of egg white on a hotplate. All things derive from other things

[goatstaog]

Just look at who has received Nobel awards! haha

[GrowlingVocals]

I cant believe people just repeat what they heard from the smart guys but nobody really wonders about what nothingness is, instead of vacuum, space before the inflation was already a "space" allright, a volume for possibilities. take that away and theres no possibility of the universe, so what exactly made that appear?