Cosmology as Science?: From Inflation to Eternity

<!--HTML-->The last decade or two have represented the golden age of observational cosmology, producing a revolution in our picture of the Universe on its largest scales, and perhaps also its smallest ones. I will argue that these recent development bring to the forefront some vexing questions about whether various fundamental assumptions about the universe are in fact falsifiable. I will focus on 3 issues: (1) "Proving" Inflation, (2) Dark Energy and Anthropic Arguments, and (3) Cosmology of the far future.<BR><a href="http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1203557">Interview with Lawrence M. Krauss<a>