Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Inflating the Universe: From Big Bang to Multiverse
Speaker
Professor Brian Keating
Coordinator
Steve Clarey
This lecture welcomes the return to Osher of Brian
Keating for a mind-expanding journey through
cosmic inflation and the multiverse. This lecture
will explore how the universe expanded faster
than light in its first moments and how this rapid
growth might have spawned multiple universes.
It will paint a vivid picture of our cosmic origins
and potential parallel realities using the latest data
from Cosmic Microwave Background experiments
and the James Webb Space Telescope. Prepare
to have your understanding of space, time and
existence challenged in this accessible yet profound
exploration of cutting-edge cosmology.
Keating for a mind-expanding journey through
cosmic inflation and the multiverse. This lecture
will explore how the universe expanded faster
than light in its first moments and how this rapid
growth might have spawned multiple universes.
It will paint a vivid picture of our cosmic origins
and potential parallel realities using the latest data
from Cosmic Microwave Background experiments
and the James Webb Space Telescope. Prepare
to have your understanding of space, time and
existence challenged in this accessible yet profound
exploration of cutting-edge cosmology.
Speaker Bio
Presenter: Brian Keating is a Chancellor’s
Distinguished Professor of Physics and an
experimental cosmologist at UC San Diego. He
works on observations of the cosmic microwave
background, the leftover heat from the Big Bang.
He is the Principal Investigator of the Simons
Observatory in the Chilean desert and conceived
the first BICEP experiment using an array of
telescopes located at the South Pole. He received
his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000 and is
the author of two books, Losing the Nobel Prize
and Into the Impossible.
Distinguished Professor of Physics and an
experimental cosmologist at UC San Diego. He
works on observations of the cosmic microwave
background, the leftover heat from the Big Bang.
He is the Principal Investigator of the Simons
Observatory in the Chilean desert and conceived
the first BICEP experiment using an array of
telescopes located at the South Pole. He received
his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2000 and is
the author of two books, Losing the Nobel Prize
and Into the Impossible.
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