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

Although cosmic expansion is often framed as a consequence of general relativity, it is also predicted by Newtonian gravity. According to inflation theory...

than curved. They ruled out cosmic strings as a major component of cosmic structure formation and suggested cosmic inflation was the right theory of structure...

explained through cosmic inflation: a sudden and very rapid expansion of space during the earliest moments. Extrapolating this cosmic expansion backward...

than the volume expansion, because its wavelength is red-shifted. Cosmic inflation and the accelerated expansion of the universe can be characterized...

Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation." Guth's research focuses on elementary particle theory and how particle...

nucleus with life at all. Don Page criticized the entire theory of cosmic inflation as follows. He emphasized that initial conditions that made possible...

to have begun with the Big Bang, followed almost instantaneously by cosmic inflation, an expansion of space from which the universe is thought to have emerged...

(November 2007). "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride". Scientific American (print). pp. 52–59. (subtitle) Could cosmic inflation be a sign that our universe...

too small. The standard Big Bang model is usually supplemented with cosmic inflation. In inflationary models, the observer only sees a tiny fraction of...

interactions; and the accelerated expansion of the universe due to cosmic inflation. Tiny ripples in the universe at this stage are believed to be the...

of cosmic strings for time travel Alan Guth (1947–) explained the isotropy of the universe by theorizing a phase of exponential cosmic inflation soon...

low-entropy "dormant" state before the Big Bang or the beginning of the cosmic inflation. Several such scenarios have been proposed in the literature. A popular...

received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky. In 2018 he received...

  : 61  The most commonly accepted solution among cosmologists is cosmic inflation, the idea that the universe went through a brief period of extremely...

than curved. They ruled out cosmic strings as a major component of cosmic structure formation and suggested cosmic inflation was the right theory of structure...

volume is not special or unique. In the eternal inflation theory, which is a variant of the cosmic inflation theory, the multiverse or space as a whole is...

is a hypothetical scalar field which is conjectured to have driven cosmic inflation in the very early universe. The field, originally postulated by Alan...

flat, homogeneous, and isotropic, providing a physical alternative to cosmic inflation. In 2012, a new theory of a nonsingular Big Bounce was constructed...

cosmic microwave background, or CMB, a very low-energy radiation emanating from all parts of the sky. The "Big Bang" scenario, with cosmic inflation and...

possess axial asymmetry. Early universe processes, such as inflation or a phase transition. Cosmic strings could also emit gravitational radiation if they...

Universe By Hubble, VLT & Spitzer Animation of the cosmic light horizon Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background by Charles Lineweaver Logarithmic...

2010 at the Wayback Machine "Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests". Space.com. 18 March 2014. Cho, Adrian (2 May 2018)...

by Wolfgang Rindler in 1956. The most commonly accepted solution is cosmic inflation. Different solutions propose a cyclic universe or a variable speed...

production of cosmic strings are likely to have occurred during the earliest moments of the universe's evolution, just after cosmological inflation, and are...

as cosmic inflation, was responsible for establishing the initial conditions of the universe: homogeneity, isotropy, and flatness. Cosmic inflation also...

theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was a pioneer of the theory of cosmic inflation, for which he received the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics together...

accelerated expansion of the universe, as observed. (See Dark energy and Cosmic inflation for details.) Instead of the cosmological constant itself, cosmologists...

field that gave rise to this cosmic inflation? If inflation happened at a single point, is it self-sustaining through inflation of quantum-mechanical fluctuations...

established the ΛCDM model of the evolution of the universe, which includes cosmic inflation, dark energy, and dark matter. Numerous possibilities and discoveries...