Cosmology: The Good, Bad, & Ugly - Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan, DemystiCon '25, DemystifySci #382

Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan is a professor of physics at the TATA
Institute of Fundamental Research, member of the India LIGO
collaboration, and is a devoted skeptic of the standard story
that we tell about the cosmological history of the universe. In
this talk, presented at the 2025 Demysticon, Professor
Unnikrishnan takes on the standard model in the best way he knows
how - by walking through the conventional model, showing the
places where it frays around the edges, and proposing the most
promising approach for taking on this behemoth that seems
permanently lodged in the popular consciousness. Filmed at
DemystiCon 2025 in Portugal, with Dr. C.S. Unnikrishnan
presenting.





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