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Cosmology: The test of inflation

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As the launch of the Planck spacecraft approaches, Eric Hand investigates what the mission could mean for the predominant theory of the moments after the Big Bang.

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Hand, E. Cosmology: The test of inflation. Nature 458, 820–824 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458820a

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