Cosmology

This blog is dedicated to cosmology. I am starting with a video of Leonard Susskind's lecture on this subject. The blog may grow as I add additional videos and writings on this subject.



From Wikipedia

Susskind (born 1940)^[1] is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics andquantum cosmology.^[2] He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,^[4] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,^[5]an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,^[6] and a distinguished professor of theKorea Institute for Advanced Study.^[7] Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory,^[8] who with Yoichiro Nambuand Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string.^[9]He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscapein 2003.^[10] In 1997, Susskind was awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prizefor his "pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking". Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world.