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Popping Cosmic Inflation

Can cosmic inflation – and the Big Bang – be ruled out?

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the first phase in the evolution of the Universe. Credit: A. Ijjas, PJ Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) According to astrophysicists, cosmic inflation – a point in the infancy of the Universe where spacetime expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk …

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