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https://www.space.com/25075-cosmic-inflation-universe-expansion-big-bang-infographic.html
Why we need inflation: https://www.space.com/42202-why-we-need-cosmic-inflation.html
https://www.space.com/42261-how-did-inflation-happen-anyway.html
Inflation Review: https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0304257.pdf
Evidence of Inflation https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/11/ask-ethan-how-well-has-cosmic-inflation-been-verified/?sh7ad0a2891d07
GW detection: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/012
Penrose cyclic cosmology: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4727997?journalCodeapc
https://physicsworld.com/a/new-evidence-for-cyclic-universe-claimed-by-roger-penrose-and-colleagues/
Fine tuning:
Fundamental constants: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ethansiegel/2015/08/22/it-takes-26-fundamental-constants-to-give-us-our-universe-but-they-still-dont -give-all/#4118be154b86
Fine tuning 1: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/fine-tuning-versus-naturalness
Fine tuning 2: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/scientific-approaches-to-the-fine-tuning-problem/
Fine tuning 3: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/04/05/fine-tuning-really-is-a-problem-in-physics/
Fine tuning 4: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/
Focus 5: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Just_Six_Numbers.html?id4XPhAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&sourcekp_read_button&hlen&redir_escy#vonepage&q&ffalse
Focus 6: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/finetuning-of-the-universe-for-intelligent-life/222321D5D4B5A4D68A3A97BBE46AEE45
Anthropic principle: https://www.britannica.com/science/anthropic-principle
Theory of Everything: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-Grand-Unified-Theory-and-the-Theory-of-Everything-and-what-is-the-difference-between-them
GUT: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/a-brief-history-of-the-grand-unified-theory-of-physics
Theory of Everything 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/07/08/ask-ethan-how-close-are-we-to-a-theory-of-everything/
ToE 2: https://www.space.com/theory-of-everything-definition.html
Alternatives to string theory: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2015/12/17/what-are-quantum-gravitys-alternatives-to-string-theory/#40cade6f7b1b
LQG: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0146
Unification: https://www.pdcnet.org/jphil/content/jphil_1996_0093_0003_0129_0144
Quantum gravity: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108040
Causal set theory: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11544
What is string theory? : https://math.berkeley.edu/kwray/papers/string_theory.pdf
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