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History and Present Status Motivated by the book Breakthrough Beyond the Edge of the World Valery Rubakov Alexei Starobinsky Andrei Linde Vyacheslav Mukhanov Vladimir Lukash. http://leandros.physics.uoi.gr. Department of Physics. University of . Ioannina. Open page. Collaborators:. . I. Antoniou (. Ioannina. ). J. . Bueno. -Sanchez (Madrid). J. Grande (Barcelona) . S. . India – A Threat to Growth and Development?. A2 Macro – January 2014. Indian Population. Population still rising but more slowly. Growth and Inflation in India. Inflation in India is among the highest in the Group of 20 leading economies. History and Present Status. . Motivated by . the book. :. Breakthrough Beyond the Edge of the World. Valery . Rubakov. Alexei . Starobinsky. Andrei . Linde. Vyacheslav. . Mukhanov. Vladimir . Lukash. To understand what . inflation is. To identify how . inflation might . affect businesses. To evaluate how businesses might respond to . inflation. Starter: Find out how much the average salary was in . AS. Background to the Argument. A classical theistic proof for the existence of God. Supports the concept of the God of classical theism (. omni. -words). Accepts that the cosmos is contingent upon a prior being to bring it into existence. By the end of Chapter 2 we had made it to 1840 with the discovery of stellar parallax and correspondingly ridiculously large distances to the stars.. At this point, it is useful to introduce a device, similar to the Evil Genius device of Descartes, known as the Random Alien Test (or RAT). Under the RAT device, an alien spontaneously appears and asks random planetary inhabitants basic knowledge questions about the Universe that any "intelligent civilization" would know. So, in 1840 the RAT question would be:. Swings in the. Economic Pendulum . Instability in the . Growth . of Real . GDP: 1960-2015. Although real GDP in the . United States has . grown at an average rate of approximately 3%, the growth has been characterized by economic ups-and-downs. What is the Cosmological argument?. Cosmological: Referring to the origin and structure of the universe.. The cosmological argument tries to prove that there is a perfect and well ordered universe, and a world in which we live (cosmos), rather than nothingness, because God brought the cosmos into existence. Theists argue that the universe is perfect because it was created by God and is not the result of random chance (the big bang theory).. Unanticipated inflation – some people are hurt; some people gain. . For example, borrowers are helped by unanticipated inflation while lenders are hurt. . However, even anticipated inflation results in costs for the economy.. Kalam. Argument. Learning objective. To be able to analyse the . Kalam. form of the Cosmological Argument. Learning outcomes. Outline and explain the key points and key words. Explain the library example. Cosmological Criticisms. Hume. 1711-1776. Empiricist. All knowledge comes from the senses. Imagination makes a connection between cause and effect. We think we know more about the world . than we really do. Inflation – a general increase in the price level. Deflation – a general decrease in the price level. Hyperinflation – extraordinarily high inflation. (Germany 1923 – prices doubled roughly every 2 days). homgeneity. of the universe.. 2. understand how Hubble’s law is used to map the universe, and look back in time.. 3. Know each of the major predictions of the Big Bang theory, and corresponding confirmations by observation.. Giovanni Manfredi. Centre National de la . Recherche. . Scientifique. Institut. de Physique et . Chimie. des . Matériaux. de Strasbourg. Gabriel Chardin. , CNRS, France . Bruce Miller. , Texas Christian University, USA.