inflation
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- noun
- /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/
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inflación cósmica
- Regions like ours, where inflation has ended, are also constantly being produced.
- eternal inflation
- inflation model
- theory of inflation
The universe beyond our bubble of inflation that came to an end?
- The universe beyond our bubble of inflation that came to an end?
- It only ever reached the energy scale of inflation, whatever that was.
- All right now the next thing we want to move on to is inflation, inflationary universe.
- And so we're, you know, we try to tease out properties of this inflation from these kinds of data.
- It's called eternal inflation, and while we don't know it's right, it could be right.
- People said goodbye universe, hello multiverse, you know, inflation, the spark that ignited The Big Bang, hello Nobel Prizes.
- In the early, early universe, there's this theorized period of time where the universe expanded at this insane rate of expansion called cosmic inflation.
- It's one of the attractions of the inflation theory.
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The small deviations likely stemmed from quantum fluctuations that grew exponentially during the period of cosmic inflation.
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It's one of the attractions of the inflation theory.
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There is pretty compelling evidence for some sort of inflation to have happened.
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So, inflation affected only the first brief moments in the life of the universe.
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And that is the picture of the multiverse that inflation tends to lead to.
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With inflation, we expect the currently observable universe to be uniform, eliminating the horizon problem.
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Inflation also resolves the flatness problem: After inflation, the universe was so large that any observable region would appear flat.
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The inflation that occurred after the Big Bang allowed the universe to expand at an incredible rate.
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Scientists believe that inflation was crucial in shaping the structure of the universe we observe today.
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During the period of inflation, the universe grew faster than the speed of light, leading to its vast size.
Compounds
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The percent that shows how much prices for things and services rise over time
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A rise in general prices caused by higher production costs like wages and raw materials
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A rise in prices when people want to buy more things than before
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A medical treatment that puts liquid, oxygen, or medicine into the airways to help breathing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inflation comes from the Latin parts in- ('into') and flare ('to blow'), and scientists used that image to describe the very fast 'blowing up' of space after the Big Bang, so inflation in cosmology means a very quick expansion of the universe.