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====== Inflation ====== | ====== Inflation ====== | ||
- | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
- | <tabbox Layman> | + | <tabbox Intutitive> |
- | <note tip> | + | A great laymen book on inflation is "The Inflationary Universe" by Alan Guth, who is one of the inventors of inflation. |
- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
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- | <tabbox Student> | + | |
* http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/db275/TEACHING/INFLATION/Lectures.pdf | * http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/db275/TEACHING/INFLATION/Lectures.pdf | ||
- | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
- | * [[http://physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/0411036.pdf|The Inflation Debate]], by Paul Steinhard | ||
- | * https://www.quantamagazine.org/taking-stock-of-the-big-bang-theory-of-inflation-20150130/ | ||
- | * http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2017/10/is-inflationary-universe-scientific.html | ||
- | * http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2017/10/i-totally-mean-it-inflation-never.html | ||
- | --> Common Question 1# | + | <tabbox 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. | |
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- | <tabbox Examples> | + | <tabbox History> |
+ | A great discussion can be found here: https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/the-early-stages-of-cosmic-inflation/amp/ | ||
- | --> Example1# | + | <tabbox Criticism> |
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- | <tabbox History> | + | |
+ | * See [[http://physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/0411036.pdf|The Inflation Debate]] by Paul J. Steinhardt | ||
+ | * https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-cosmic-controversy/ | ||
+ | * https://www.quantamagazine.org/taking-stock-of-the-big-bang-theory-of-inflation-20150130/ | ||
+ | * http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2017/10/is-inflationary-universe-scientific.html | ||
+ | * http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2017/10/i-totally-mean-it-inflation-never.html | ||
</tabbox> | </tabbox> | ||