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348. Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe | Dr. Brian Keating

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Origins of Homogeneity

In the early universe, curvature perturbations would manifest themselves as departures from perfect homogeneity by one part in 100,000. Inflation says, I didn't get to this before, but when we made this detection in 2014, that's described in my book, Losing the Nobel Prize,. We claimed we detected these waves of gravity. That's as close as scientists think we can get to detecting the smoking gun and it's actually the smoke from the gun - inflation. Now, with inflation concomitantly, unavoidably, inextricably linked, is the notion of the multiverse. You cannot have inflation, which means you cannot have these quantum perturbations that

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