Cosmological inflation is the theoretical exponential expansion of the early universe.
Inflation is not concerned with any theory of how reality came to be, the coming into existence or origin of the universe.
Zero-energy universe is merely a hypothesis with zero explanatory power (no pun intended) since negative energy hasn't been demonstrated to exist yet and shouldn’t be conflated with the inflation model because it is a cosmological argument in theoretical Physics, attempting to explain what happened after the Big Bang, not before, while not fully understood what mechanisms were at work, inflation at least makes a number of predictions confirmable by observation.
Alexei V. Filippenko and Jay M. Pasachoff should learn the scientific distinction between cosmological and cosmogonical ideas before writing articles that throw out buzz-words like there's no tomorrow.
Inflation is not concerned with any theory of how reality came to be, the coming into existence or origin of the universe.
Zero-energy universe is merely a hypothesis with zero explanatory power (no pun intended) since negative energy hasn't been demonstrated to exist yet and shouldn’t be conflated with the inflation model because it is a cosmological argument in theoretical Physics, attempting to explain what happened after the Big Bang, not before, while not fully understood what mechanisms were at work, inflation at least makes a number of predictions confirmable by observation.
Alexei V. Filippenko and Jay M. Pasachoff should learn the scientific distinction between cosmological and cosmogonical ideas before writing articles that throw out buzz-words like there's no tomorrow.
