Inflation

... too small for COBE to have detected. Tye and collaborators also demolished the second objection to cosmic strings having to do with "Inflation," which can be thought of as an intensification of the explosion and rapid expansion of the early universe following rapidly on the heels ...

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... in the news. Physicicists now have the first direct evidence to support the two decade old theory that the universe went through what is called inflation or the big bang. The universe did indeed go through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of ...

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