Speaker:	Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University)
Title:	Cosmology as Science? From Inflation to Eternity
Date (JST):	Wed, May 26, 2010, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Lecture Hall
Abstract:	The last decade or two have represented the golden age of observational cosmology, producing a revolution in our picture of the Universe on its largest scales, and perhaps also its smallest ones. I will argue that these recent developments bring to the forefront some vexing questions about whether various fundamental assumptions about the universe are in fact falsifiable. I will focus on 3 issues: (1) "Proving" Inflation, (2) Dark Energy and Anthropic Arguments, and (3) Cosmology of the far future.

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