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String Gas Cosmology: Challenging Inflation | Robert Brandenberger (#336)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Emergence of Time

We are starting with a theory in which the basic ingredients are matrices. And there is no space. The time that emerges out of this construction in the limit where you take the size of the matrix is to infinity, this time is continuous. It ranges from minus infinity to plus infinity. There's no big bang singularity. So we don't need inflation to believe something that's flat.

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