Resumen de The inflation debate.
The article discusses a debate among scientists regarding cosmic inflation, which is the idea that the geometry and uniformity of the universe were established during an intense early growth phase. The author notes that cosmic inflation is so widely accepted among physicists that it is often seen as an established fact. Topics include an overview of why some physicists are beginning to have second thoughts about the theory's logic, such as the highly improbable conditions that are required to start inflation and the eternal nature of inflation, which produces an infinite amount of outcomes that makes no firm observational predictions, and various proposals for solutions that will either fix inflation or replace it. INSETS: Unlikely to Be Good;It Had to Be Just So;The Abyss of Infinity.
