In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the very early universe...

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statistically significant. A 2016 study compared isotropic and anisotropic cosmological models against WMAP and Planck data and found no evidence for anisotropy...

The measure problem in cosmology concerns how to compute the ratios of universes of different types within a multiverse. It typically arises in the context...

The flatness problem (also known as the oldness problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. Such problems...

Cosmology (from Ancient Greek κόσμος (cosmos) 'the universe, the world' and λογία (logia) 'study of') is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with...

education Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards Inflation (cosmology), the expansion...

models based on 6 free parameters and fitting in to Big Bang cosmology with cosmic inflation. The Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI) was a telescope...

Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description...

2016-03-16. Smeenk, Chris. "False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation" (PDF). Alekhin, S.; Djouadi, A.; Moch, S.; Hoecker, A...

eternal inflation. The mechanisms of inflation within these pocket universes could function in a variety of manners, such as slow-roll inflation, undergoing...

ISBN 978-0-7679-1501-4. Steinhardt, Paul J. (April 2011). "Inflation Debate: Is the theory at the heart of modern cosmology deeply flawed?" (PDF). Scientific American...

According to the models of inflation and current observations of the accelerating universe, the concordance models of physical cosmology are converging on a...

In physical cosmology, the inflationary epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe when, according to inflation theory, the universe underwent...

Starobinsky inflation is a modification of general relativity used to explain cosmological inflation. It was the first model to describe how the universe...

The horizon problem (also known as the homogeneity problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. It arises...

In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation (also known as a vacuum state fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary random change in the amount...

energy and inflation, exert gravitational repulsion in the cosmological context, which accelerates the expansion of the universe. A cosmological constant...

In physical cosmology, warm inflation is one of two dynamical realizations of cosmological inflation. The other is the standard scenario, sometimes called...

A black hole cosmology (also called Schwarzschild cosmology or black hole cosmological model) is a cosmological model in which the observable universe...

Primordial gravitational wave Primordial black hole Liddle & Lyth. Cosmological inflation and large-scale structure. p. 75. Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud...

because in most standard cosmological inflation models, inflation ceases well before electroweak symmetry breaking occurs, so inflation should not be able to...

and inflation occurred during the cosmological phase transitions. In 1983, Linde abandoned some of the key principles of old and new inflation and proposed...

A non-standard cosmology is any physical cosmological model of the universe that was, or still is, proposed as an alternative to the then-current standard...

first cosmological event was the result of the collapse of a previous universe. It receded from serious consideration in the early 1980s after inflation theory...

universe is highly constrained, requiring special circumstances (see Inflation (cosmology)). On the other hand, cosmic strings have been suggested as providing...

homogeneous and isotropic at large enough scales, as claimed by the cosmological principle and assumed by all models that use the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker...

scalar field in early universe cosmology. It can generate fluctuations during inflation, but does not itself drive inflation, instead it generates curvature...

describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology. Research published in 2015 estimates the earliest stages of the universe's...

background radiation Orfeu Bertolami (1959–) studied the cosmological constant, cosmic inflation, dark energy–dark matter unification and interaction, alternative...