And it's even worse, they argue, inflation is not even a scientific theory: “[I]nflationary cosmology, as we currently understand it, cannot be evaluated using the scientific method.” As ...

Cosmic inflation is what happened before, and set up, the Big Bang. Here's what it's like to live in an inflating Universe.

Inflation may be the best-developed explanation for many features seen in the modern universe, these researchers say, but it still has problems. Science News headlines, in your inbox ...

Inflation requires that the universe be filled with a high density of energy that gravitationally self-repels, thereby enhancing the expansion and causing it to speed up.

The universe goes whoosh, and inflation does its thing. But then, the inflaton (somehow) changes and reduces its vacuum energy, shutting off the inflationary epoch.

Evidence for Universe Inflation Theory May Lurk in New Data. News. By Katia Moskvitch published 21 January 2014 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In inflation, by contrast, the whole universe could have fit into a Planck volume, 10-33 centimeters across, much tinier indeed. So for some people (like me), the benefit of inflation isn’t that it’s ...

I was reminded recently that we live in a Catch-22 Universe. What makes it a Catch-22 is that no one is qualified to penetrate the mystery of the cosmos without skill in advanced mathematics, and ...

New findings show that the universe underwent a burst of inflation that was seemingly faster than the speed of light in the first instant of its existence. IE 11 is not supported.

The Hartle–Hawking proposal imagines a universe emerging from a smooth, compact geometry, yet it typically predicts too few inflationary e-folds to match our observations.