Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Professor Ed Copeland discusses the origin of particles - including talk about inflation, re-heating, the Big Bang, and oscillons. More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓

New paper by Ed and collaborators...
Formation and decay of oscillons after inflation in the presence of an external coupling, Part-I: Lattice simulations: arxiv.org/abs/2406.00108

More Ed on Sixty Symbols: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561
Ed's trilogy on the sofa: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBMxm0HSZCDU7rMAWOt7zLgp
Ed discusses his career on the Numberphile Podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=J1gBpcwAmNg

Reheating after Inflation by Kofman, Linde and Starobinsky: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9405187
Oscillons: Resonant Configurations During Bubble Collapse: arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9503217

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