To infinity, and beyond

What was the Universe like a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? How did we get from that to the galaxies, stars and planets of today? And what will the Universe look like billions of years from now? Furqaan will explain how the “standard model of cosmology” answers these questions, using evidence from a surprising variety of experiments and environments. It’s the most complete story of the Universe we have, and we have so much more to learn.

Could there be other worlds existing in parallel with our own, containing alternate versions of you? Although this sounds like science fiction, the strange properties of quantum theory suggest that such worlds may really exist. Tony will describe how the peculiar behaviour of microscopic particles leads to this dramatic conclusion, and how we might harness these parallel worlds to solve otherwise intractable problems.