Overcoming Some of the Problems

Abstract

In an earlier chapter we talked about “a number of problems related to the big bang: the horizon problem, the flatness problem, and so on. Some of these problems can be overcome by a theory we discussed briefly in the last chapter, namely inflation theory—assuming, of course, that you accept the theory. As we will see, it has some strange predictions. In this chapter we will look at inflation theory in much more detail. To understand it, though, we have to begin with the fields and particles of nature.