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•What was Cosmic Inflation, and how does it solve the Horizon and Flatness problems?•What were the major epochs of the Universe?
The Early Universe
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•The cosmic horizon is the maximum distance that we can observe (the maximum distance that light can have traveled to us over the age of the Universe).•We are causally connected to regions within our cosmic horizon.
The Cosmic Horizon
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The Cosmic Horizon
Does our cosmic horizon grow with time, shrink with time, or stay the same size?
A)It growsB)It stays the sameC)It shrinks
Concept Question
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The Cosmic Horizon
Does our cosmic horizon grow with time, shrink with time, or stay the same size?
A)It growsB)It stays the sameC)It shrinks
Concept Question
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The Flatness and Horizon Problems
The Horizon Problem
The Flatness Problem
How can causally disconnected regions be in equilibrium?
Why is the Universe flat?Ω = 1.00 ± 0.05
Two Problems with the Big Bang
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Regions A and B are not in causal contact
Fig.
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13A’s cosmological horizon
The Horizon Problem
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Fig.
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15Cosmic Inflation and the Flatness Problem
Cosmic Inflation: A rapid period (10-36 s) of expansion in size (x1030) when the strong force “separated out”.
No matter how highly curved the Universe was before Inflation, it was flat after Inflation.
Inflation to the Rescue!
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If causally disconnected regions are now essentially identical, what must that mean about their past?
A)The must have been causally connected in the past.
B)They are communicating through hyperspace with faster-than-light particles.
Question
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If causally disconnected regions are now essentially identical, what must that mean about their past?
A)The must have been causally connected in the past.
B)They are communicating through hyperspace with faster-than-light particles.
Question
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Fig.
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14Cosmic Inflation and the Horizon Problem
The entire observable universe was in causal contact before Inflation.
Regions A & B were in equilibrium before Inflation, then evolved independently, but identically, after Inflation.
1030
expansionA & B in equilibrium
Inflation to the Rescue!
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04Particle
EraElectroweak
EraGUTEra
PlanckEra
Inflation
A force “separating out” is like a phase transition for the whole Universe.
QM GR
10-43 s10-35 s10-10 s10-3 s
The First Millisecond
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Fig. 23-02
Eras of the
Universe