The Early Universe

Video Lectures

Lecture 1: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I

Lecture 2: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part II

Lecture 3: The Doppler Effect and Special Relativity

Lecture 4: The Kinematics of the Homogeneous Expanding Universe

Lecture 5: Cosmological Redshift and the Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part I

Lecture 6: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part II

Lecture 7: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part III

Lecture 8: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part IV

Lecture 9: The Dynamics of Homogeneous Expansion, Part V

Lecture 10: Introduction to Non-Euclidean Spaces

Lecture 11: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Closed Universes

Lecture 12: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Open Universes and the Spacetime Metric

Lecture 13: Non-Euclidean Spaces: Spacetime Metric and Geodesic Equation

Lecture 14: The Geodesic Equation

Lecture 15: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part I

Lecture 16: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part II

Lecture 17: Black-Body Radiation and the Early History of the Universe, Part III

Lecture 18: Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Cosmological Constant, Part I

Lecture 19: The Cosmological Constant, Part II

Lecture 20: Supernovae Ia and Vacuum Energy Density

Lecture 21: Problems of the Conventional (Non-inflationary) Hot Big Bang Model

Lecture 22: The Higgs Field and the Cosmological Magnetic Monopole Problem

Lecture 23: Inflation