Pioneered by Guth and others,
inflation theory does a good job of explaining why space is fairly smooth.
Not exact matches
Under certain conditions, as long as monetary policy has a larger effect on
inflation than it
does on financial stability risk and macroprudential policy has a larger effect on financial stability risk than it
does on
inflation, there would be no need, in
theory, for the agencies responsible to coordinate their actions explicitly.
If my understanding of the
theory of
inflation is correct, then yes, we
do know where the matter in our universe came from.
Dr. Wickman
does not understand the
theory, because
Inflation isn't the beginning of our observable universe, so it doesn't bear on the first cause (the argument central to her opinion).
Growing doubts about evidence for ancient gravitational waves don't undermine cosmic
inflation, says the
theory's co-founder Andrei Linde — and don't let feelings obscure science
«I don't think Paul and Neil come close to proving their case,» says Alan Guth, a cosmologist at MIT who is a founding father of
inflation theory.
Although the findings don't rule out traditional
inflation theories, they
do open the door for other
theories about how the universe began, including the idea that the universe began with a splat rather than a bang (ScienceNOW, 9 April 2001).
For example, the equations governing water molecules, which have nothing to
do with string
theory, permit the three solutions corresponding to steam, liquid water and ice, and if space itself can similarly exist in different phases,
inflation will tend to realize them all.
THE EDITORS REPLY: Ijjas, Steinhardt and Loeb
did raise objections to the
theory of
inflation, but as the authors pointed out in their February article, their view is a minority opinion.
«If the gold it's pulling out of the ground is worth more than increases in
inflation, wages and production, then in
theory they'll
do better as gold prices rise,» he says.
We run a stimulative policy far more often than
theory would demand, and we don't get significant
inflation.