Inflation
The False Vacuum and the Beginning of Inflation As continuation for the Cyclic Universe and earlier blogs I continue a bit deeper what happened in very beginning of the Universe. Modern cosmology suggests that the early universe may have been driven by a remarkable process known as cosmic inflation — a brief era of exponential expansion that occurred fractions of a second after the beginning of time. The standard explanation in most inflation models is that a hypothetical field filled space with a very large vacuum-like energy density. While the field slowly evolved, its energy acted like a repulsive gravitational source, causing spacetime to expand exponentially. Generally, the particle that manifests the field is called as inflaton. Some researchers propose that the already-known Higgs Field drove inflation. The Higgs boson is a fundamental component of the Standard Model of particle physics, playing a crucial role in the mass of elementary particle...