Book contents
- The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook
- The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Understanding Science
- 2 How Dark Is the Night?
- 3 Run for the Hills!
- 4 Going Gently into That Good Night
- 5 An Ever-Changing Universe
- 6 The Wood for the Trees
- 7 We Are (Mostly) Made of Stars
- 8 Ripples in the Night Sky
- 9 Balls from Left-Field
- 10 How to Do Better than the Big Bang
- Acknowledgements
- EndNotes
- Further Reading
- Index
8 - Ripples in the Night Sky
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
- The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook
- The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Understanding Science
- 2 How Dark Is the Night?
- 3 Run for the Hills!
- 4 Going Gently into That Good Night
- 5 An Ever-Changing Universe
- 6 The Wood for the Trees
- 7 We Are (Mostly) Made of Stars
- 8 Ripples in the Night Sky
- 9 Balls from Left-Field
- 10 How to Do Better than the Big Bang
- Acknowledgements
- EndNotes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The universe is smooth on the largest scales, with roughly the same number of galaxies in every large cosmic neighbourhood. But the standard history of the universe won't allow any process to smooth out an initially smooth universe. An addition to the standard model, called cosmic inflation, aims to fill this void.
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- The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook(Or: How to Beat the Big Bang), pp. 174 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020