1. Lecture 22: The Planck Time---The Present Limit to All Knowledge
Astronomy 5: The Formation and Evolution of the Universe
Sandra M. Faber
Spring Quarter 2007
UC Santa Cruz

2. Cosmic history in 4 easy steps
Big Bang Zoom
Graphics from WMAP team

3. Two giants of modern cosmology
AF-751 (left, Alan Guth), AF-772 (right, Andrei Linde)
Alan Guth: Inflation
Andre Linde: Eternal Inflation

4. Eternal inflation posits inflating universes budding out of inflating universes
AF-488. Credit: A. Linde. (Also shown in The Cosmos, Fig , but they don’t own the copyright).

5. The landscape of eternal inflation: graphs show energy density in “inflaton” field
AF-489. Credit: A. Linde.

6. Eternal inflation at higher resolution
The laws of physics may be different in each colored domain
Our Universe is one of the valleys that is not inflating.

7. Calabi-Yau spaces: Attempts to “draw” the 11-dimensional space of string theory in three dimensions