Cosmic inflation
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title:
Cosmic inflation
text:
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the very early universe. Following the inflationary period, the universe continued to expand, but at a slower rate. The re-acceleration of this slowing expansion due to dark energy began after the universe was already over 7.7 billion years old. Inflation theory was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with notable contributions by several theoretical physi
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Theory of rapid universe expansion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_inflation
date created:
2001-04-05T00:12:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T21:42:59Z
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