The Evidence for Modern Physics

The Case for Cosmic Inflation (1x18)

Udgivelsesdato: Sep 01, 2021

Unlike the well-founded theories you’ve studied so far in this course, turn to one that is as-yet-unproven—but mindboggling in its implications. Cosmic inflation proposes that a period of explosive expansion occurred in the first instants of the Big Bang. This startling idea accounts for two puzzling features of today’s universe: the observed uniformity of matter and the flat geometry of space.