The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...

The distribution of matter across the cosmos is most easily explained by inflation, a theory that suggests our universe inflated rapidly — just like a balloon — shortly after its birth, according to ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a recent paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the first, very rapid ...

It is 25 years since the workshop that marked the birth of the inflationary Universe and the laying of the theoretical foundations of modern cosmology. Following a flood of data, the inflationary ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...

Inflation, in the context of the big bang theory, refers to the episode of exponential expansion of the very early universe indicated by particle physics' Grand Unified Theories (Extensive references ...

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm having trouble understanding the theory of inflation/heat-death. Here's the basic fundamental laws of matter and energy, as I understand ...