The conventional wisdom among cosmologists is that the universe experienced a period of “inflation,” a brief burst of accelerated expansion, a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. But theoretical physicist Latham Boyle argues that inflation is a figment of cosmologists’ imagination, and that a better theory of the early universe suggests the Big Bang is a cosmic mirror hiding another universe just beyond the beginning of time.
What was the very early universe like, just a short time after the Big Bang? What happened at the Big Bang itself? What was the Big Bang?
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