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    In physical cosmology, the inflationary epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe when, according to inflation theory, the universe underwent...
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    described as including the inflationary epoch. In other models, the electroweak epoch is said to begin after the inflationary epoch ended, at roughly 10−32...
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    predicted by Newtonian gravity. According to inflation theory, during the inflationary epoch about 10−32 of a second after the Big Bang, the universe suddenly...
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    that dominated the development of the universe during the following inflationary epoch. Big Bang Chronology of the universe Ultimate fate of the universe...
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    exponential expansion of space in the very early universe. Following the inflationary period, the universe continued to expand, but at a slower rate. The re-acceleration...
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    particle physics). Some cosmologists place the electroweak epoch at the start of the inflationary epoch, approximately 10−36 seconds after the Big Bang. Others...
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  • problematic, as there was no consistent way to bring an end to the inflationary epoch and end up with the hot, isotropic, homogeneous universe observed...
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    through observation and theory. All of this cosmic evolution after the inflationary epoch can be rigorously described and modeled by the lambda-CDM model of...
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    universe expanded. After an initial accelerated expansion called the inflationary epoch at around 10−32 seconds, and the separation of the four known fundamental...
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    visible universe. The former includes signals since the end of the inflationary epoch, while the latter includes only signals emitted since recombination...
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  • the unified force of the Standard Model, in turn followed by the inflationary epoch, which ended after about 10−32 seconds (or about 1011 tP). Table 3...
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  • Modern view of the expansion of space. The inflationary epoch is a period of rapidly accelerating expansion at left....
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    his calculations of the gravitational radiation emitted during the inflationary epoch of the universe. He received the Oskar Klein Medal in 2010. Starobinsky...
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  • expansion of space in the early universe at a very high rate; the inflationary epoch lasted from 10−36 seconds after the Big Bang to sometime between 10−33...
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    Speculatively, it is possible that the universe may enter a second inflationary epoch, or assuming that the current vacuum state is a false vacuum, the...
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    and electrons to combine and form hydrogen—the so-called recombination epoch. When this happened, matter and energy became decoupled, allowing photons...
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    fluctuations caused by zero-point energy arising in the microscopic inflationary period, later became magnified to a cosmic size, becoming the gravitational...
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    during the first fraction of a second of the universe (known as the "inflationary epoch"). Some theories suggest that a fundamental scalar field might be...
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  • smoothed out. Many models of the Universe suggest that there was an inflationary epoch in the early history of the Universe when space expanded by a large...
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    superclusters have been described as artifacts of quantum fluctuations in the inflationary epoch of the universe. CfA Redshift Survey and Catalog Retrieved April 7...
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  • small amounts of non-Gaussianities believed to be seeded during the inflationary epoch in the Early Universe. In order to have a stable numerics for IFT...
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    free-streaming. This epoch is observed through the CMB. Since we observe the CMB as a background to objects at a smaller redshift, we describe this epoch as the transition...
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  • strain theory Infinity correction Infinity focus Inflation (cosmology) Inflationary epoch Inflaton Information processing Infragravity wave Infralateral arc...
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  • addresses the fundamental question that remains unanswered by the Big Bang inflationary model, "What happened before the Big Bang?" The explanation, according...
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    hypothetical black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of...
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    scattering, and so the universe became transparent. Known as the recombination epoch, this decoupling event released photons to travel freely through space....
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    the inflationary theory leads to a multiverse that allows for every possible outcome, Steinhardt argued, we must conclude that the inflationary theory...
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    economists and investors criticized the economic agenda of Trump as inflationary, especially noting his proposed 10% universal tariff. Some columnists...
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    inflation" or "slow roll inflation" in which no tunnelling occurs, and the inflationary scalar field instead graphs as a gentle slope. In 2014, researchers at...
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    April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013. Guth, Alan H. (15 January 1981). "Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems"....
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