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Einstein's Quantum Riddle! In Memoriam to Dr. Andy Friedman (#326)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Theory of Cosmic Inflation

If you trace back all of the matter and light in our universe, it turns out that a quasar on one side of the sky could not have influenced a quasar. Even though everything in the Big Bang was an incredibly small space, it expanded so fast that light that left in this direction couldn't catch up to something in this direction because they're expanding away too fast. So there's reasons to believe that cosmic inflation did happen; then again it could be that something way back in that period of cosmic inflation affected all the things that we see.

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