8.286 The Early Universe (Fall 2013, MIT OCW): Lecture 01 - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I

8.286 The Early Universe

8.286 The Early Universe (Fall 2013, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Alan Guth. The Early Universe provides an introduction to modern cosmology. The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 01 - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I

In this lecture, the professor talked about the standard Big Bang, cosmic inflation, evidence for inflation, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), universe to multiverse, dark energy, etc.

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Lecture 01 - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I

Lecture 02 - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II

Lecture 03 - The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity

Lecture 04 - The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe

Lecture 05 - Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I

Lecture 06 - The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II

Lecture 07 - The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III

Lecture 08 - The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV

Lecture 09 - The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V

Lecture 10 - Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces

Lecture 11 - Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes