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SUMMARY:Challenging the Inflationary Paradigm - Eugene Lim (KCL)
DTSTART:20191120T141500Z
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CONTACT:Francesca Chadha-Day
DESCRIPTION:Inflation is now the paradigmatic theory of the Big Bang. But 
 is it deserved? I will describe the conceptual and theoretical challenges 
 that Inflation is still facing\, argue that we should keep an open mind. I
 n particular\, I will argue that while it is a theory that claims to be a 
 theory of initial conditions of the Universe\, successful inflation actual
 ly depends on an intimate interplay between its own initial conditions and
  the inflationary model. I will show how one might go about probing this i
 nterplay by testing whether inflation can begin if its own initial conditi
 ons are not homogenous.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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