Gravitational Radiation from the Early Universe
Craig Hogan (University of Washington)
Sometime during the next ten years, gravitational waves will likely be
detected for the first time. The dominant radiation will probably come from
extremely energetic sources in the present day universe, but there may also
be a detectable stochastic background left over from the very early universe
that informs us of early events about which we have no other information.
The talk will discuss the techniques of detecting stochastic backgrounds,
and the physics of their production-- for example, the formation of our
three-dimensional space out of a larger fundamental space of more
dimensions.
