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Nature 395, 639-641 (15 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27078

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Cosmology:  New troubles for inflation?

Marc Kamionkowski1 & Andrew H. Jaffe2

In the very early Universe, gravity may briefly have become a repulsive, rather than an attractive, force. The ensuing period of ultra-rapid expansion — called 'inflation'1,3 — could account for some of the fundamental features of the Universe, such as the remarkable smoothness of the 2.

  1. Marc Kamionkowski is in the Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027, USA.
    e-mail: Email: kamion@phys.columbia.edu
  2. Andrew H. Jaffe is at the Center for Particle Astrophysics, University of California, 301 Le Conte, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
    e-mail: Email: jaffe@cfpa.berkeley.edu