Time to move on?

Abstract

Cosmology and particle physics have long been dominated by theoretical paradigms: Einstein's general theory of relativity in cosmology and the Standard Model of particle physics. The time may have come for paradigm shifts. Does cosmological inflation require a modification of Einstein's gravity? Have experiments at the LHC discovered a new particle beyond the Standard Model? It is premature to answer these questions, but we theorists can dream about the possibilities.

12 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at Second LeCosPA Symposium, Taipei, Dec. 2015, contribution to the Proceedings

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• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
• The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton
• Tests of general relativity with GW150914
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• Inflation scenario driven by a low energy physics inflaton