Neil Turok 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 3449 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/13/305
Neil Turok
Show affiliationsThe theory of cosmic inflation offers an attractive resolution of some of the great paradoxes in cosmology: why the universe is so large, flat and uniform on large scales, and how density variations arose. Inflation has rightly dominated cosmological thinking for the past two decades, helping stimulate the development of high-precision observational programmes. The survival of simple inflationary models in the face of an impressive observational onslaught has been interpreted as convincing evidence of the correctness of the basic idea. In this paper, I review inflation, but highlight its weaknesses, explaining my reasons for believing that a more complete theory may supersede inflation without necessarily incorporating it.
Issue 13 (7 July 2002)
Received 2 May 2002
Published 12 June 2002
Neil Turok 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 3449
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