NOTE: Audio becomes in-audible at the 3:25 mark but comes back at 4:19
Colloquium given by Leonard Susskind on Sep/9/2009 at The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract: The Standard model of Cosmology consists of a package of ideas that include Cold Dark Matter, Inflation, and the existence of a small Cosmological Constant. While there is no consensus about what lies beyond the Standard Model, there is a leading candidate that also includes a small package of ideas: A Landscape of connected vacua: the idea that the universe started out with a large energy density, and Coleman DeLuccia Tunneling between vacua. An additional idea that comes from string theory and black hole physics is the Holographic Principle. I will explain how the various ingredients for a "post-standard-model" standard model fit together.
