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David interviews Will Kinney about cosmic inflation and the concept of an infinite number of worlds before the Big Bang.

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People in this episode

Host: David

Guest: Will Kinney

Topics covered

• Big Bang
• Cosmic Inflation
• Physics
• Multiverse
• Cosmology

Keywords

• Big Bang
• inflation
• cosmic
• universe
• multiverse
• physics
• Will Kinney

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Buffalo University, Cool Worlds Podcast

Books & works: An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

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