Sentences with phrase «inflation theories propose»

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Inflation theory, first proposed in the early 1980s, predicts that a pattern of tiny temperature differences should exist in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the big bang.

«In a related vein, a universal repulsive «force» is also postulated to have existed during the era of inflation — an episode of extremely rapid expansion that many modern cosmological theories propose occurred immediately after the big bang.

The theory of cosmic inflation, proposed and developed by Alan Guth, Andrei Linde and Alexei Starobinsky, has revolutionized our thinking about the universe.