The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe CREDIT A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) Astrophysicists say ...

Scientists believe that in the very early universe, everything was incredibly tiny, chaotic, and full of random energy ripples, known as quantum foam. It was a state where spacetime was unstable, and ...

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...

The model questions the popular inflation theory, which most experts believe was facilitated after the universe's birth. The ...

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“However, the large flexibility displayed by possible models for cosmic inflation which span an unlimited landscape of cosmological outcomes raises concerns that cosmic inflation is not falsifiable, ...

(Nanowerk News) Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the ‘Big ...