If both Kerr rings and negative - energy wormholes prove unreliable, Guth's
inflation theory points the way to another, more difficult escape strategy: creating a baby universe.
Not exact matches
Standard cosmology — that is, the Big Bang
Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as
inflation — is the prevailing scientific model for our universe, in which the entirety of space and time ballooned out from a very hot, very dense
point into a homogeneous and ever - expanding vastness.
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.
My view, though, is that while
inflation points us in the right direction, it is not the final
theory.