Rosy
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- Apr 23, 2018
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Inflation is the quantum tunneling event where all the matter and energy in the universe was created. Then the universe began to expand and cool. The phrase Big Bang is the initial expansion.Doesn't inflation deal with what happened after the Big Bang, rather then before?
But no, not after. Before. Inflation is a very short lived event. Not to be confused with the expansion of the universe.
Well, some further reading shows that the timing is often presented in a contradictory fashion; some places show inflation as immediately after the Big Bang, some immediately prior. In neither case, however, do I see anything indicating that inflation shows matter and energy being created. From my reading of the concept, it is about the extremely rapid expansion of the universe either immediately after or immediately before the BB, not about how the energy that was expanding came into being. I could well be missing things, however; do you have any links I might go to where it explains how inflation describes the creation of the energy of the universe?
Nothing in that discussion indicates that cosmic inflation describes the creation of the energy of the universe, at least not that I could tell.![]()
Click on Vilenkin's interview.
Did our Universe have a Beginning? | Closer to Truth
There are no interviews from people who were at the beginning.