Seminar series
Date
Mon, 16 Jun 2014
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Laura Mersini Houghton
Organisation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I will discuss the validity of the claims that eternal inflation populates the landscape and show the reasons for the mathematical inconsistency between the two. Within the formalism of quantum cosmology, solutions for the wavefunction of the universe to the landscape are Anderson localized. The latter can give rise to observational tests of the landscape, some of which are already supported from Planck's findings of anomalies at large scales.