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PIRSA:09090030

Beyond the Standard (cosmological ) Model

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Susskind, L. (2009). Beyond the Standard (cosmological ) Model. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/09090030

Leonard Susskind Stanford University

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Abstract

The Standard model of Cosmology consists of a package of ideas that include Cold Dark Matter, Inflation, and the existence of a small Cosmological Constant. While there is no consensus about what lies beyond the Standard Model, there is a leading candidate that also includes a small package of ideas: A Landscape of connected vacua: the idea that the universe started out with a large energy density, and Coleman DeLuccia Tunneling between vacua. An additional idea that comes from string theory and black hole physics is the Holographic Principle. I will explain how the various ingredients for a "post-standard-model" standard model fit together.