Outreach lecture to teachers

By Ian | Published: July 21, 2011

I gave a lecture to secondary school teachers this week as part of the Goldsmith’s Company’s Science for Society Course on astrophysics.

Having heard about the Big Bang model and some of its problems from my colleague Dr David Mulryne, I was given the task of outlining how the inflationary paradigm tries to solve these problems and some of the reasons we think it is a good model of the early universe.

My slides are now available on slideshare.net and are embedded below. As I have mentioned before I prefer minimal text in my presentations, allowing the audience to focus on me instead of paragraphs of text on the slides.

Inflation as a solution to the problems of the Big Bang

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