{"id":11610,"date":"2016-05-07T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2016-04-30T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:04:32","slug":"how-cosmic-inflation-flattened-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11610","title":{"rendered":"How Cosmic Inflation Flattened The Universe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let PBS know what type of digital series you&#8217;d like to see by taking this survey:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/pbsds2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/pbsds2016\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/pbsds2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does Inflation solve the Big Bang\u2019s problems?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/blSTTFS8Uco\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Get your own Space Time t-shirt at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime<br \/>\nFacebook: facebook.com\/pbsspacetime<br \/>\nEmail us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com<br \/>\nComment on Reddit:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although much of the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted to be true, it only gets us part of the way there. Observable truths such as the CMB and the flatness of our universe reveal that there is no way the universe has been expanding at a constant rate since its beginning. It turns out Cosmic Inflation solves the Big Bang&#8217;s major problems quite well. So well in fact, that we might not even need a Big Bang at all!<\/p>\n<p>FURTHER READING:<\/p>\n<p>Inflation (cosmology)<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Meeff1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Meeff1\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Meeff1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosmological constant<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/25nlp7Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/25nlp7Z\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/25nlp7Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p>COMMENTS:<\/p>\n<p>Frank Schneider<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DBlanding23<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>jodokastslo<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Omicron Vega<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=djglV97KEYqm-QWFnoSgCg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n<p>Written and hosted by Matt O\u2019Dowd<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nMade by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let PBS know what type of digital series you&#8217;d like to see by taking this survey:\u00a0https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/pbsds2016 How does Inflation solve the Big Bang\u2019s problems? Get your own Space Time t-shirt at\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com\/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit:\u00a0http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime Although much of the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted to be true, it only gets us part of the way there. Observable truths such as the CMB and the flatness of our universe reveal that there is no way the universe has been expanding at a constant rate since its beginning. It turns out Cosmic Inflation solves the Big Bang&#8217;s major problems quite well. So well in fact, that we might not even need a Big Bang at all! FURTHER READING: Inflation (cosmology) http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Meeff1 Cosmological constant http:\/\/bit.ly\/25nlp7Z _____________________ COMMENTS: Frank Schneider https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc&#8230; DBlanding23 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc&#8230; jodokastslo https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc&#8230; Omicron Vega https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Aj6Kc&#8230; ______________________ Written and hosted by Matt O\u2019Dowd\u00a0 Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[551,853],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11611,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions\/11611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}