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Apr 11, 2022

My guest today is Will Kinney, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kinney received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Kinney's research focuses on the physics of the very early universe, including inflationary cosmology, the Cosmic Microwave Background, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy. He has authored more than seventy published research articles and received the SUNY Chancellor's award for excellence in teaching in 2014.

The topic is his book An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The progress in cosmology
  • Big Bang
  • How the elements in the periodic table were formed
  • What is it like to be an amateur astronomer?
  • Understanding where the universe came from
  • The light left over from the Big Bang
  • People's progress in the search for life beyond Earth
  • Modern cosmological theories
  • Where did all the structure in the universe come from?
  • The basis of the cosmological principle

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