... time, by those produced in the inflationary epoch that occurred just after the Big Bang. Cosmological inflation is the current leading theory for the observed characteristics of the universe. One such characteristic is the afterglow of the Big...
...CMB got to be everywhere all at once is to do with the theory behind it - the theory of inflation. Developed in the 1980s to explain several puzzles with the standard Big Bang theory, the Inflation theory proposes that a period of extremely rapid and...
... likely smaller than 1/1078 of the whole universe created by an inflation, and there is no strong reason to expect more than one ...a single homogeneous region in the Universe created by an inflation event, obeying the same physical laws that we observe...
... in order to account for the uniformity of the cosmic microwave background, cosmologists have embraced the idea of ‘inflation’… and inflation theory suggests that there was a huge, and near instantaneous, expansion of space-time after the initial Big...