What Was Cosmic Inflation? The Quest to Understand the Earliest Universe

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The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary theory of cosmic inflation, and astronomers have been looking for evidence to this day.

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