Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on 10 broad questions on major concepts—of arguable contention—in physics as a ...

During the inflationary epoch the Universe underwent an exponential expansion driven by a scalar inflaton field. Quantum fluctuations of this field and of the metric were stretched beyond the Hubble ...

Last year’s reports that the BICEP2 telescope had uncovered evidence for cosmic inflation turned out to be a false alarm, but researchers in the field haven’t given up. Matthew R Francis describes how ...