PBS Space Time - Season 2019 Episode 24
Every astronomy textbook tells us that soon after the Big Bang, there was a period of exponentially accelerating expansion called cosmic inflation. In a tiny fraction of a second, inflationary expansion multiplied the size of the universe by a larger factor than in the following 13 and a half billion years of regular expansion. This story seems like a bit of a … stretch. Is there really any mechanism that could cause something like this to happen? What what we’re covering today – the real physics of cosmic inflation.
- Zhanri: Documentary, Talk
- Studio: YouTube
- Fjalen: astrophysics, science and technology
- Cast: Matthew O’Dowd
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