In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe...
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Astrophysics Cosmology Inflation (cosmology) Fractal cosmology Physical cosmology Shape of the universe False vacuum Measure problem (cosmology) Gibbons,...
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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...
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Flatness problem (redirect from Cosmological flatness problem)
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...
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False vacuum (category Inflation (cosmology))
2016-03-16. Chris Smeenk. "False Vacuum: Early Universe Cosmology and the Development of Inflation" (PDF). Alekhin, S.; Djouadi, A.; Moch, S.; Hoecker, A...
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Cosmology (from Ancient Greek κόσμος (cosmos) 'the universe, the world', and λογία (logia) 'study of') is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing...
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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...
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Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description...
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education Grade inflation, the increase over time of academic grades, faster than any real increase in standards Inflation (cosmology), the expansion...
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De Sitter universe (redirect from De Sitter cosmology)
According to the models of inflation and current observations of the accelerating universe, the concordance models of physical cosmology are converging on a...
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Inflaton (redirect from Non-minimally coupled inflation)
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...
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Starobinsky inflation is a modification of general relativity used to explain cosmological inflation. In the Soviet Union, Alexei Starobinsky noted that...
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Cosmic microwave background (category Inflation (cosmology))
tightly constraining various cosmological parameters. The results are broadly consistent with those expected from cosmic inflation as well as various other...
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Pocket universe (category Inflation (cosmology))
eternal inflation. The mechanisms of inflation within these pocket universes could function in a variety of manners, such as slow-roll inflation, undergoing...
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Horizon problem (category Inflation (cosmology))
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...
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Quantum fluctuation (category Inflation (cosmology))
In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation (also known as a vacuum state fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary random change in the amount...
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Inflationary epoch (category Inflation (cosmology))
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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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...
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Primordial fluctuations (category Inflation (cosmology))
Primordial gravitational wave Primordial black hole Liddle & Lyth. Cosmological inflation and large-scale structure. p. 75. Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Arnaud...
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In physical cosmology, warm inflation is one of two dynamical realizations of cosmological inflation. The other is the standard scenario, sometimes called...
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Big Bounce (redirect from Cosmological rebound effect)
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...
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and inflation occurred during the cosmological phase transitions. In 1983, Linde abandoned some of the key principles of old and new inflation and proposed...
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Topological defect (category Inflation (cosmology))
universe is highly constrained, requiring special circumstances (see Inflation (cosmology)). On the other hand, cosmic strings have been suggested as providing...
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A black hole cosmology (also called Schwarzschild cosmology or black hole cosmological model) is a cosmological model in which the observable universe...
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Big Bang (redirect from Big Bang cosmology)
because in most standard cosmological inflation models, inflation ceases well before electroweak symmetry breaking occurs, so inflation should not be able to...
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In cosmology, the cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ), alternatively called Einstein's cosmological constant...
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Curvaton (category Inflation (cosmology))
scalar field in early universe cosmology. It can generate fluctuations during inflation, but does not itself drive inflation, instead it generates curvature...
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In physical cosmology, fractal cosmology is a set of minority cosmological theories which state that the distribution of matter in the Universe, or the...
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List of cosmologists (redirect from Contributors to cosmology)
microwave background radiation Orfeu Bertolami (1959–) studied the cosmological constant, inflation, dark energy-dark matter unification and interaction, alternative...
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E-folding (category Inflation (cosmology))
atmospheric chemistry, medicine and theoretical physics, especially when cosmic inflation is investigated. Physicists and chemists often talk about the e-folding...
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