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Understanding Cosmic Inflation: Theory and Predictions

Standard Big Bang Model → Reheating After Inflation

This advanced graduate-level path systematically covers the theoretical foundations of cosmic inflation, its role in solving classic Big Bang problems, and its key observational predictions. It progresses from the horizon and flatness problems through the dynamics of the inflaton field, slow-roll inflation, the generation of primordial perturbations, and concludes with tensor modes and reheating.