That seems a naked assault on the laws of thermodynamics. Cosmic inflation solves these problems at a stroke. In its earliest instants, the universe expanded faster than light (light’s speed ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory ... Are there any drawbacks to living in a multiverse? The problem with having an infinite multiverse is that if you ask a simple ...

Some estimates suggest during inflation the universe grew by 10 60 times, and that too within a second. Over billions of years, these stretched ripples grew into clumps of matter, forming the first ...

A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it proposes a novel mechanism that suggests that inflation arises from ...