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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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The Quasi-Standard Cosmic Cosmology

The first Nobel Prize in economics was awarded for inflation, not the cosmological kind. Paul Steinhardt claims that inflation is Baroque, pernicious, dangerous, malevolent to science and society. The bouncing or cyclic cosmologies have serious virtues, according to some. It's a good topic to work on if you want to know about prize that doesn't matter the field. And what it does most foremost is that it removes the quantum gravity aspect from Cosmology.

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