Where Did the Universe Come From?

[jordan0day]

I liked the video, but to a layperson like myself, the title seems to not necessarily match up to the content of the video itself.

That is, it seems like more of a "How did we get here from the big bang?" explanation, and not so much of a "How did we get a big bang?", which is what I had expected from the title.

[digital55]

David Kaplan also made Particle Fever: http://particlefever.com/

[d0mine]

Does the video refer to the evidence for cosmic inflation theory that was proven to measure just interstellar dust instead?

http://www.space.com/28423-cosmic-inflation-signal-space-dus...

[digital55]

The video mentions that physicists are looking for the "ripples" (gravitational waves) that would prove inflation, and while they haven't found them yet, they seem to be getting closer to detecting them.

[Errorcod3]

In this 2-minute video, David Kaplan explores the leading cosmological explanation for the origin of the universe.

[whitenoised]

get that prolonged 2 min down to a 15 second explanation for the origin of the universe and I'm in

[treefire86]

What happens if you fall into a black hole? https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150508-what-happens-when-yo...

[axus]

Yeah, it does seem like our universe is an inverse black hole, with the big bang as the event horizon, and everything expanding inexorably out instead of in.

[ryandvm]

You end up in your daughter's bedroom and push dirt around.