Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition. Episode 93 The Inflationary Universe
(2025, original release: 2007)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2007
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
15080036
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

The remarkable large-scale uniformity and "flatness" of the Universe pose a problem for the standard Big Bang theory. A startling but powerful suggested explanation is that the Universe went through an initial period of exponential expansion, called inflation

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Alex Filippenko

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2007

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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