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Addressing the Biggest Controversies in Modern Cosmology with George Efstathiou [Ep. 436]

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Controversy Surrounding Inflation and Negative Curvature in Cosmology

Speakers examine the debate over inflation in cosmology, focusing on negative curvature findings in the Planck data set, discussing measurement reliability, statistical approaches, and the impact of prior choices in data analysis, highlighting the importance of cautious interpretation in Bayesian statistics and utilizing profile likelihoods in situations with extensive degeneracies.

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