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Recording Details

Speaker(s): 
Jean-Luc Lehners
Scientific Areas: 
Quantum Fields and Strings,
Cosmology
Collection/Series: 
Meet a Scientist
Subjects: 
String Theory
Arts
Astronomy
Cosmology
Mathematics
Space Science
PIRSA Number: 
09100186

Abstract

What, exactly, happened around the time of the Big Bang? Exploring new models inspired by superstring theory and supergravity, e.g. ones in which we live on “branes” that collide with a “big bang”. Satellite experiments to test such models.