Andreas Albrecht - What is Quantum Cosmology?

“Quantum” is the theory of the utterly small. “Cosmology” is the study of the utterly large. They combine, remarkably, when in the very early universe the entire universe was far smaller than the smallest particle. What does it mean to describe the universe as a ‘quantum wave function’? What are the quantum features of space and time?

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Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 where, with Paul Steinhardt, he wrote one of the original papers on “new” or “slow roll” inflation.

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