NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Back to Results
Cosmological Inflation: A Personal PerspectiveWe present a brief review of Cosmological Inflation from the personal perspective of the speaker who almost 30 years ago proposed a way of resolving the problem of Cosmological Horizon by employing certain notions and developments from the field of High Energy Physics. Along with a brief introduction of the Horizon and Flatness problems of standard cosmology, this lecture concentrates on personal reminiscing of the notions and ideas that prevailed and influenced the author's thinking at the time. The lecture then touches upon some more recent developments related to the subject including exact solutions to conformal gravity that provide a first principles emergence of a characteristic acceleration in the universe and concludes with some personal views concerning the direction that the cosmology field has taken in the past couple of decades and certain speculations some notions that may indicate future directions of research.
Document ID
20080032451
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Kazanas, Demos
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
April 24, 2008
Subject Category
Astronomy
Meeting Information
Meeting: Physics Colloquium at Rochester Institute of Technology
Location: New York
Country: United States
Start Date: April 24, 2008
End Date: April 25, 2008
Sponsors: Rochester Inst. of Tech.
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

Available Downloads

There are no available downloads for this record.
No Preview Available