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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

larger than the apparent cosmological horizon at recombination. Either such coherence is acausally fine-tuned, or cosmic inflation occurred. Other than the...

Starobinsky inflation is a modification of general relativity used to explain cosmological inflation. In the Soviet Union, Alexei Starobinsky noted that...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In physical cosmology, fractal cosmology is a set of minority cosmological theories which state that the distribution of matter in the Universe, or the...

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...

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

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...

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

models of inflation, which generally predict a gravitational-wave signal above approximately 0.01." Cosmology Inflation (cosmology) Atacama Cosmology Telescope...

atmospheric chemistry, medicine and theoretical physics, especially when cosmic inflation is investigated. Physicists and chemists often talk about the e-folding...