How the Universe Began … and How it is Likely to End

Prof Carlos Frenk has been a Durham University physics superstar for decades now. He is one of the world’s leading cosmologists and a pioneer of the “cold dark matter” model, which transformed our understanding of how galaxies and the Universe formed. A Professor of Cosmology and founding Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology, his simulations of the Universe have helped reveal the invisible structure of the cosmos.

In addition to being on the forefront of science he’s a gifted communicator to wide audiences and so he comes to TEDxDurham to discuss one of the biggest potential changes in our basic understanding of how the Universe works. It involves 5000 robots in the Arizona desert and how the data they are collecting from the edges of the known Universe could upend our basic model in understanding the birth of the Universe.