5–30 Nov 2012
Nordita
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Effective Theories, Decoupling and Cosmology: A Bad Cop standing in a Cold Shower, wrapped in a Wet Blanket

28 Nov 2012, 10:00
2h
132:028 (Nordita)

132:028

Nordita

Speaker

Cliff Burgess

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This talk briefly reviews effective field theory as applied to gravity and time-dependent systems, with a view to seeing how it constrains thinking about cosmological models. I argue that it limits the scope of reasonable models, and provides useful prejudices when thinking about popular ideas like UV Lorentz violation, inflation, dark matter and dark energy.

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