Skip to McMaster Navigation Skip to Site Navigation Skip to main content 












How String Theory Explains the Origin of our Universe
	
 Mar 18, 2010 
 3:20PM to 4:20PM





	





























Date/Time

Date(s) - 18/03/2010
3:20 pm - 4:20 pm





Title: How String Theory Explains the Origin of our Universe


Speaker: Dr. Keshav Dasgupta, McGill University


Institute: McGill University, Physics


Location: ABB 102


Description:


The popular view of the origin of our universe is that the universe grew out of a big bang which eventually led to all the matter and everything else that we see around us using a paradigm called inflation. String theory being the fundamental theory of nature, should be able to explain what happened at the dawn of time, and in particular the concept of inflation, big bang etc. In this talk I’ll summarise how using techniques of string theory we have been able to form a

consistent theory of the universe that not only sheds light on the origin of our universe, but also the subsequent future evolution of our universe