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Classification: concept
Chapter: The Mystery of the Missing Bang
Inflation is a name for a group of mathematical devices that are grafted onto general relativity by special assumptions in order to explain anomalies such as the failure to observe monopoles. It leads to a vast expansion far faster than the speed of light shortly after the beginning of time.