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 ...

This was a period of cosmic inflation that lasted mere fractions of a second — about 10^-32 of a second, according to physicist Alan Guth’s 1980 theory that changed the way we think about the ...

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 ...