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26 - Did Inflation Rip Apart the Early Universe?

Why This Universe?

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The Three Problems Left Unanswered by the Big Bang Theory

All three of these problems were kind of being thrown around in the 70s. I don't think most cosmologists were deeply worried about them, but it was in the water. The common solution came from a guy who wasn't even a cosmologist at all. He proposed that maybe in the very early universe, there was a very brief period of very, very fast expansion of space.

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