AaS! 86: Why Do We Need Cosmic Inflation? (Part 2)

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Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

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🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Part 2! What was going in the very early universe? How does inflation provide the seeds of larger structures? How can we possibly test this? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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1:14.4	Welcome back.
1:22.5	Our bedtime story today starts when the universe was a mere 10 to the minus 36 seconds old.
1:29.8	Notice that we don't even bother with cool sounding Greek prefixes here. There's no nanos or picos or femtos. It's just 10 to the minus 36. 0.000 many more one seconds. You may want to listen to part
1:40.4	one on this two-part series on inflation, but if you're chill and just want the
1:44.4	words to wash over you with no meaning or context or significance, that's fine by me. Five
1:50.0	stars on iTunes, please. I tried to find a cool metaphor to express how quick this moment
1:58.6	is, the moment leading up to inflation and then the event of inflation
2:02.9	itself. I couldn't find one. Here is something that falls far short. You have a billion heartbeats
2:09.8	in your life, roughly. Start counting and it kind of stresses you out to count, but you have a billion
2:14.4	heartbeats in your life. Compare the length of your heartbeat,
2:19.6	like boom, boom, to the length of your life. Your life is much, much longer than your heartbeat.
2:24.0	You can get a vague sense of the extent of your life if you compare it to the length of a heartbeat.
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