Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at Tufts:

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
2:30 pm
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

"Can We Observe Other Pocket Universes?"


Anthony Aguirre
UC at Santa Cruz

Abstract:

The idea of eternal inflation, with its attendant notion that we may inhabit just one of many 'pocket' universes, has raised many thorny questions as to how to test such a theory if cosmological and other observables are not uniquely determined. While these difficulties may not be insoluble, it is of great interest to search for directly observable signatures of such a 'multiverse'. I will discuss the possibility that collisions between neighboring bubble universes can leave observable signatures detectable by some or all observers inside them.

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