Nature

Secret route to warm cosmic ‘inflation’: the nuclear force

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

The beginning of the universe: Cosmic inflation with standard particle physics repertoire

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Did Dark Matter Help Supersize the Universe?

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...
Scientific American

Physicists Propose a Simpler, Hotter Origin for the Cosmos

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...
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How Did the First Atom Form? Where did it come from? | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...
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Why Gravitational Waves, Not Inflaton Fields, May Hold the Key to the Universe’s Origins

Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient gravitational waves? In a shocking shift from the conventional picture of ...
SpaceNews

Beyond ‘pi in the sky’ -Andrei Linde lauds the new era of precision cosmology

For most of us, “inflation” is a term that comes up only in conversations about the economy or flat tires. But for many cosmologists, inflation is the ultimate word in understanding how the universe ...
SpaceRef

Can Cosmic Inflation Be Ruled Out?

Cosmic inflation is a popular scenario for the earliest phase in the evolution of the Universe CREDIT A. Ijjas, P.J. Steinhardt and A. Loeb (Scientific American, February 2017) Astrophysicists say ...
Discover Magazine

How Finely-Tuned is the Universe?

Breaking radio silence here to report on some of the actual work I've been able to complete: a new paper with Heywood Tam. Unitary Evolution and Cosmological Fine-Tuning Authors: Sean M. Carroll, ...
The Next Web

Cosmology in crisis as evidence suggests our universe isn’t flat, it’s actually curved

No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun ...
Astronomy

Can cosmology untangle the universe’s most elusive mysteries?

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...
SpaceNews

Mukhanov and Starobinsky to receive $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

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