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Nydus Open Learning

Cosmology

The horizon and flatness problems and inflation

A horizon at decoupling spans about a degree yet the sky has one temperature, and today's flatness needs |Omega - 1| below 10^-16 when nuclei formed; about 60 e-folds of inflation solve both, its ripple predictions are confirmed, and its gravitational waves are not yet seen.

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