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Title Slide 00:00:00 Outline 00:01:16 The WMAPed Universe 00:01:58 Inflation and High Energy Physics: Whither Decoupling? 00:03:15 Horizon/Hubble radius in SBB 00:05:45 Could Trans-Planckian physics affect the CMP power spectrum? 00:06:52 Decoupling: A Double Edged Sword 00:10:16 Trans-Planckian Physics: Opportunity or Disaster? 00:11:47 The Basis question is: Does inflation violate decoupling? 00:12:30 The literature considers two possibilities... 00:12:58 Inflation and Decoupling: Peaceful Coexistence? 00:14:34 Nixon and Bibles: The uses of loopholes 00:15:13 Loophole 1: two models of non-adiabatic physics 00:16:20 Model 1: Hybrid Inflation 00:18:22 Non-adiabatic oscillations 00:20:07 Oscillation features 00:23:26 The \chi^2 \phi^2 model 00:24:40 Implications for the CMB 00:27:50 Loophole 2: When Power-Counting goes bad! 00:28:32 A Supersymmetric hybrid model 00:32:07 \alpha-vacua / states 00:37:18 Perturbative induction of \alpha-vacua 00:38:38 \alpha - vacua: A modest proposal 00:40:20 In TFT/Non-eq. QFT pinches correlate ... 00:41:17
