How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe

Let PBS know what type of digital series you'd like to see by taking this survey: How does Inflation solve the Big Bang’s problems? Get your own Space Time t-shirt at Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: Help translate our videos! 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's major problems quite well. So well in fact, that we might not even need a Big Bang at all! FURTHER READING: Inflation (cosmology) Cosmological constant _____________________ COMMENTS: Frank Schneider DBlanding23 jodokastslo Omicron Vega ______________________ Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)