Summary
Andrei Linde: Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology
The theory of the inflationary universe describes the very early stages of the evolution of the universe and its structure at an extremely great distance from us. For many years, cosmologists believed that the universe at its very beginning looked like an expanding ball of fire. That explosive beginning of the universe is called the Big Bang. At the beginning of the 70s, a different scenario of the evolution of the universe was proposed, and judging by that scenario, the early universe was created by degrees of inflation, that is, exponentially accelerated expansion in a kind of unstable vacuum-like state. The new theory leads to a significant change in the standard view of the structure and evolution of the universe and our place in it. Linde's inflationary cosmology scenario has become the standard paradigm of modern cosmology, replacing previous versions of Big Bang theories.
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