Inflation is now a built-in piece of our standard story of cosmic evolution. But it’s still controversial. In 2014, researchers claimed to have seen ripples from inflation imprinted on the ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

What if its origin dated back not to the hot phase of the Big Bang, but to cosmic inflation, that period of rapid, exponential expansion? According to a study published in *Physical Review Letters ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation, galaxy formation, and the ingredients of life in space. By measuring the ...

The theories of "stochastic primordial nucleosynthesis" (Chapter 6) and structure formation (Chapter 7) consistent with embryonic inflation provide a coherent framework for explaining the evident ...

SPHEREx, a new space telescope, will map galaxies, study cosmic inflation, and explore the ingredients for life. Its infrared ...

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Primordial nucleosynthesis after embryonic inflation, the subject of Chapter 6, yields spatially varying abundances of elements, including heavy elements in all the densest cosmic regions. The theory ...