John D. Barrow: 100 Years of Universes

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Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at TU Wien

Every solution of Einstein’s equation is an entire universe. They offer a novel solution to some deep puzzles about the structure of the astronomical universe. Prof. Barrow will in this lecture embark on a travel which will lead us through the islands of some of the pertinent questions of modern physics, cosmology, and mathematics.
He will tell the story of all the different possible universes that were found to be solutions of Einstein’s equations: static and expanding universes, contracting universe, oscillating universes, accelerating universes, chaotic and distorted universes — all make their appearance together with the unexpected spinning, universe with time-travellers found first by Kurt Gödel. He will converge on best description of our visible universe today and the contemporary inflationary universes. They offer a novel solution to some deep puzzles about the structure of the astronomical universe.
Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? What might such a theory look like? What would it mean? And how close are we to getting there?
This public lecture with John D. Barrow is part of the conference Kurt Gödel´s Legacy, and will be in memory of Wolfgang Rindler, an Austrian physicist specializing in relativity and its effects on cosmology, who died in February 2019. Key ideas introduced by Wolfgang Rindler play a pivotal role in our understanding of how the present structure of the universe came to be, and they determine what its extraordinary fate appears to be in the far distant future.
Prof. Barrow
Professor John D. Barrow has been a Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Geometry and Astronomy (!) at the University of Cambridge since 1999, carrying out research in mathematical physics, with special interest in cosmology, gravitation, particle physics and associated applied mathematics. His principal research interests are in cosmology – the study of the past, present (and even likely future) structure of the Universe.
He is the author of over 420 articles and 19 books, translated in 28 languages, exploring the wider historical, philosophical and cultural ramifications of developments in mathematics, physics and astronomy. He has also delivered lectures in a perhaps unique combination of locations including 10 Downing Street, Windsor Castle, the Vatican Palace and the Venice Film festival.
Since its inception in 1999 John Barrow has been the director of the Millennium Mathematics Project which aims to improve the understanding and appreciation of mathematics and its applications amongst young people and the general public. 
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We are pleased to invite you to the public lectures which are part of the international conference<A HREF="https://kgs.logic.at/goedels-legacy/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Kurt Gödel´s Legacy – Does the Future Lie in the Past</A>, celebrating 70th years of Gödel's rotating universe and 100th years of the decisive review of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The public lectures are admission free. <A HREF="http://www.vcla.at/events/kurt-goedels-legacy-does-future-lie-in-the-past/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">More here.</A> 
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The conference is supported by the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, <A HREF="https://turis.univie.ac.at/detail-view-news/news/kurt-goedels-legacy-does-future-lie-in-the-past-1/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=0dd5ba853ca633c10c578b2842488b63" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the research platform TURIS</A>, the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms at the <A HREF="https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/news/kurt-goedels-erbe/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TU Wien</A>, the Department Vienna Circle at University of Vienna (<A HREF="https://ivc.univie.ac.at/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institut Wiener Kreis)</A> and the <A HREF="https://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vienna Circle Society</A>.

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