The Big Bang and Beyond: Exploring the Early Universe

<p>Taught by Professor Gary Felder of Smith College, this course covers the history of the early universe starting with the Big Bang and continuing to the formation of the first stars and galaxies hundreds of millions of years later. Professor Felder also looks ahead to the ultimate fate of the universe and to speculation on what may have happened before the Big Bang.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: The Big Bang Changes Everything
• 02: The First Few Minutes of the Universe
• 03: First Galaxies, First Stars, and Dark Matter
• 04: How Big Was the Big Bang?
• 05: Mysteries That Reshaped the Big Bang Model
• 06: Inflation! The First Fraction of a Second
• 07: What Caused Inflation: The Scalar Field
• 08: More than One Big Bang in a Multiverse?
• 09: Other Universes across Other Dimensions?
• 10: The Origins of the Constants of Nature
• 11: From the Big Bang to the Universe’s Fate
• 12: The Future of Early Universe Cosmology