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Podcaster:  Paul M. Sutter

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Title: AaS! 163: Will Our Universe End in a False Vacuum Decay?

Organization:  INFN Trieste and OSU CCAPP

Link :  Twitter @PaulMattSutter, http://www.Facebook.com/PaulMattSutter, and http://www.askaspaceman.com

Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/pmsutter

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/PaulMattSutter

Description:

What is a vacuum, and what makes a false one? What happened in the early universe to bring about our current physics? Will it happen again? If so, when? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

Bio: Paul Sutter received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow. He then spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Next-Generation Cosmic Probes at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, and is currently an INFN Fellow in Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and a Visiting Scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics. He is inexplicably drawn to positions with very long titles.

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