I’ve always been in awe of the work done by Pamela and Fraser over at Astronomy Cast. It was a honour to be invited on as a guest a few months ago, and even more of an honour to be invited back.
You can listen to Pamela and I discussing the trials and tribulations of [...]
Posts in the "Cosmology" Category
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I’ve been trying to use art in my lectures and talks for a while now; I’ve written here before about how Anthony Gormley’s sculpture Blind Light helps me to think about the cosmic microwave background, and Escher’s Cubic Space Division is still the best way I know of explaining why we conclude that space itself [...]
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It may surprise you to know that the disparate, motley, collection of individuals that make up the professional astronomical community are as subject to the swings and roundabouts of fashion as anyone else, but nevertheless it’s true. Fashions can change the way we think about our research (can that pet project be pitched as vital [...]
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You now don’t have to listen to my attempt to parse Sean Carroll’s talk, but can go and read his take on the research at Cosmic Variance.
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In commenting here, Sean said
I was mostly trying to make the point that, although multiverse ideas are very new and underdeveloped, it is certainly imaginable that [...] -
At any conference there’s one talk that changes the way you think about something, or crystalizes thoughts that you’ve had anyway. In the last few months I’d been thinking carefully about the answer to the question ‘but what happened before the Big Bang’, and a talk by Cosmic Variance blogger Sean Carroll crystalized some of [...]
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