The Expanding Universe: myths and measurements | Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, Laura Mersini-Houghton

What is the universe expanding into? Can we accurately measure its growth? Did cosmic inflation really start from the Big Bang?

Roger Penrose, ‪@seancarroll‬ , Laura Mersini-Houghton, John Ellis, Peter Cameron and David Tong discuss the myths and realities surrounding the expansion of the universe.

00:00 Intro
00:37 | David Tong
05:14 | Sean Carroll
08:21 | Laura Mersini-Houghton
12:21 | John Ellis
15:05 | Peter Cameron
16:41 | Roger Penrose

David Tong
Cambridge Professor of Theoretical Physics and winner of the Adams Prize, his research focuses on how the universe is held together on a fundamental level.

Sean Carroll
Debate: https://iai.tv/video/big-bang-creatio...
Cosmologist and physics Research Professor at the California Institute of Technology, working in dark energy and general relativity.

Laura Mersini-Houghton
Talk: https://iai.tv/video/how-to-find-a-mu...
Professor of Physics at the University of North Carolina. Her work focuses on the birth of the universe from the multiverse, and has been widely covered by the New Scientist, the Discovery Channel and the BBC.

John Ellis
Talk: https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/in...
Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London who has worked extensively at CERN, and advocates the extension of the particle accelerator programme.

Peter Cameron
Multiple award-winning Professor of Mathematics Peter Cameron frequently engages the public in how to think like a mathematician. He has an Erdös number of 1.

Roger Penrose
Talk: https://iai.tv/video/the-next-univers...
World-renowned physicist, best known for his work on general relativity and sharing the Wolf Prize for Physics with Stephen Hawking for their work on black holes.

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