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What is inflation?
Inflation refers to a class of cosmological models in which the Universe exponentially increased in size by about 1043 between about 10-35 and 10-32 s after the Big Bang (It has since expanded by another 1026)
Inflation was originated by Alan Guth in 1979 (and has been modified since)
Inflation is an example of non-uniform expansion