Cosmology & Origins
Cosmic inflation
strength 72/100
Peer-reviewed
Guth's inflationary epoch of rapid early expansion explains the universe's flatness, homogeneity, and the absence of relics, and seeds structure from quantum fluctuations.
Bears on 1 hypothesis
- supportsw65PLAUSIBLEThe early universe underwent cosmic inflation
Inflation is the hypothesis; this is its proposal.