Why Can't the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 2: The Awkward Triumph of Inflation

Why Can't the Universe Be Cyclic? Part 2: The Awkward Triumph of Inflation
By Paul Sutter (https://ift.tt/8cDmeYQ)

Inflation is awkward, possibly not even a proper theory, and it has reigned over cosmology for forty years anyway. Here is what it claims, the flatness, horizon, and monopole problems it solves, the structure-formation prediction it nailed, and the deep problems it still cannot escape.

June 8, 2026 at 12:35AM
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