Perspectives in cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-05-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The "new standard cosmology", based on the theory of inflation, has very impressive observational support. I review some outstanding problems of the new cosmology and the global view of the universe -- the multiverse -- that it suggests. I focus in particular on prospects for further observational tests of inflation and of the multiverse.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.0721,
title = {Perspectives in cosmology},
author = {Alexander Vilenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0721},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited talk at TAUP conference, Rome, July 2009