Does inflation solve the hot big bang model's fine-tuning problems?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.06.002zbMath1320.83052OpenAlexW1504388921MaRDI QIDQ493024

C. D. McCoy

Publication date: 11 September 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmologyfine-tuningscientific problemsscientific progress

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Physics (00A79)

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