While the Big Bang Theory is widely supported within the scientific community, some researchers propose alternative ideas, such as eternal inflation or a cyclical, oscillating universe.

It does not take a Ph.D. to see that we may be witnessing a big bang in inflation. The popular theory that accelerating price inflation in the U.S. would eventually be detected has gone many years ...

Forbes What Came First: Inflation Or The Big Bang? ... The Big Bang theory-haters all aspire to be cosmic revolutionaries—and that’s precisely what all scientists want to be, too.

Kinney: “Standard Big Bang theory doesn’t have any explanation for why the universe is so smooth and so uniform, for all these basic properties of the cosmos that we see. Cosmic inflation sets up this ...

For the first time, scientists have found primordial gravitational waves — long-sought evidence of cosmic inflation theory. Cosmic inflation suggests that the universe expanded at many times the ...

Using the Big Bang model, scientists can dial back in time and peek into the status of the universe at the moment of its creation. ... Testing inflation theory as a whole.

Traditional Big Bang theory predicts that there should be small differences in temperature, ... And, if inflation theory is correct, we’d expect to see some mix of B-modes and E-modes, ...

Cosmic inflation — a theory f irst developed around 1980 by physicists including Alan Guth, Alexei Starobinsky, Andrei Linde and Katsuhiko Sato — is the concept of exponential expansion of the very ...

Ever since the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the idea has had its skeptics. The radical concept stated that the universe is expanding; run time ...

See how cosmic inflation theory for the Big Bang and universe's expansion works in this Space.com infographic. (Image credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist) 1) We all live in the universe.