{"id":192013,"date":"2024-06-28T20:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/epic-expansion-the-case-for-inflationary-cosmology"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T01:23:39","slug":"epic-expansion-the-case-for-inflationary-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/epic-expansion-the-case-for-inflationary-cosmology","title":{"rendered":"Epic Expansion: The Case for Inflationary Cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3Zh-F6cqmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For decades, inflation has been the dominant cosmological scenario, but recently the theory has been subject to competition and critique. Two renowned pioneers of inflation \u2014 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde \u2014 join Brian Greene to make their strongest case for the inflationary theory.<\/p>\n<p>This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Participants:<br \/> Alan Guth.<br \/> Andrei Linde.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator:<br \/> Brian Greene.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 \u2014 Introduction.<br \/> 05:58 \u2014 Participant introductions.<br \/> 08:23 \u2014 Problems with the Big Bang.<br \/> 28:07 \u2014 Realizing the Inflationary Paradigm.<br \/> 42:13 \u2014 Observational Support for the Inflationary Theory.<br \/> 56:37 \u2014 Eternal Inflation and the Measure Problem.<br \/> 01:17:09-The Future of Cosmology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, inflation has been the dominant cosmological scenario, but recently the theory has been subject to competition and critique. Two renowned pioneers of inflation \u2014 Alan Guth and Andrei Linde \u2014 join Brian Greene to make their strongest case for the inflationary theory. This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}