Loading tweet... "And the year starts with an inflationary bang," wrote Harvard's Jason Furman, adding that he was glad the Fed was on hold. Loading tweet... Mohamed El-Erian, the former Pimco ...

The authors of the new study aren't the first to suggest that cosmic inflation predated the Big Bang. They aren't even the first to suggest that dark matter arose during this epoch. What is new is ...

This is called the Planck epoch. Time ceases to be linear ... "I usually describe inflation as a theory of the 'bang' of the Big Bang: It describes the propulsion mechanism that we call the ...

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the universe originated from a singularity, swiftly expanding and cooling to create the ...