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Prof. Alexander Vilenkin, Institute of Cosmology at Tuft University | The Racah Institute of Physics

Prof. Alexander Vilenkin, Institute of Cosmology at Tuft University

Date: 
Tue, 20/05/201412:30-13:30
Location: 
Kaplun building, Room No. 200
"Global structure of the multiverse and the measure problem": Cosmic inflation is generically a never ending process, with new "bubble universes" constantly being formed. I will discuss the origin of this "multiverse" worldview, its possible observational tests, and one of its major unresolved problems -- the so-called "measure problem".