inflation

Summary

inflation is a cosmological model^[1]. inflation draws 621 Wikipedia views per month (cosmological_model category, ranking #3 of 5).^[2]

Key Facts

• inflation is credited with the discovery of Alan Guth^[3].
• inflation is credited with the discovery of Alexei Starobinski^[4].
• inflation's instance of is recorded as cosmological model^[5].
• inflation's instance of is recorded as hypothesis^[6].
• inflation's instance of is recorded as occurrence^[7].
• inflation's Commons category is recorded as Cosmic inflation^[8].
• inflation's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1981^[9].
• inflation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cosmic inflation^[10].
• inflation's described at URL is recorded as https://www.spektrum.de/lexikon/astronomie/inflation/197^[11].
• inflation's facet of is recorded as cosmology^[12].
• inflation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/cosmological-inflation^[13].
• inflation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/cosmological-inflation^[14].
• inflation's different from is recorded as Inflation^[15].
• inflation's significant person is recorded as Andrei Linde^[16].
• inflation's significant person is recorded as Alexei Starobinski^[17].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include cosmological model^[5], hypothesis^[6], and occurrence^[7].

Cultural Significance

Things named for inflation include inflaton^[18], a type of quantum particle^[19].

Why It Matters

inflation draws 621 Wikipedia views per month (cosmological_model category, ranking #3 of 5).^[2] inflation has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20] inflation is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[21]

Entities named for inflation include inflaton^[18], a type of quantum particle^[19].