Cosmic Inflation

Speculative · 1980

Status: Speculative
Year: 1980

Summary

A burst of exponential expansion in the first fraction of a second, smoothing the universe and stretching quantum fluctuations into the seeds of galaxies. It fits the data well; the mechanism is still guesswork.

Timeline

Inflation Reheating

Equations

First Friedmann Equation Cosmological Equation of State Linear Perturbation Growth FLRW Metric

Proponent

Andrei Linde Alexei Starobinsky Alan Guth

Referenced by

equation

Cosmological Equation of State FLRW Metric First Friedmann Equation Linear Perturbation Growth

event

Inflation Reheating

researcher

Alan Guth Alexei Starobinsky Andrei Linde

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