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Revision 105 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/04-cosmos.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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Inflation explains why the universe is so flat and uniform, and its predictions for the spectrum of density fluctuations have been confirmed. Its signature in primordial gravitational waves, B-mode polarization, has not been seen. BICEP2 announced a detection in 2014 that turned out to be galactic dust.

Posed 1980, Alan Guth.

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Origins of the universe · Cosmos