Although there is no doubt in my mind that inflation is the most important idea in cosmology since the Big Bang itself, progress in both cosmology and particle physics since then has made ...

The discussion focuses on what makes up the Universe, what dark matter and dark energy are, what inflation ... book. Malcolm J. Perry is in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical ...

The answer lies in his theory of cosmic inflation. “It sets up the conditions for the big bang—like a prequel,” says Guth, a professor of physics at MIT. For developing that theory ...