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Inflation
Intutitive
A great laymen book on inflation is "The Inflationary Universe" by Alan Guth, who is one of the inventors of inflation.
Abstract
Why is it interesting?
Inflation is a framework the was invented to explain the cosmological flatness problem, i.e. to explain why spacetime is so flat, and to explain why there are no magnetic monopoles.
History
A great discussion can be found here: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/the-early-stages-of-cosmic-inflation/amp/
Criticism
- See The Inflation Debate by Paul J. Steinhardt
theories/speculative_theories/inflation.txt · Last modified: 2018/05/05 12:54 by jakobadmin
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