Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Laura Mersini) is a Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist, and a Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has developed (together with collaborators) a theory for the birth of the universe from the landscape multiverse that included four predictions proposed in 2006, three of which have since been observed: the Cold Spot (2007); Dark Flow (2009); and, the deviation of the CMB Amplitude (2010). The parameters of her Theory of the Origins of the Universe, unlike competing theories, are not phenomenological but are derived from fundamental physics and first principles.
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