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The Big Bang and Beyond: Exploring the Early Universe

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<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>

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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
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