Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza

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Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist.

Stock footage from Videoblocks.

References:

https://www.newscientist.com/definiti...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...
   • Cosmic Inflation Explained  
https://bigthink.com/surprising-scien...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...
https://www.livescience.com/33129-tot...
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do...
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/...
https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/...
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
https://profmattstrassler.com/article...
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https://www.phy.princeton.edu//~stein...
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/...
http://www.astronomynotes.com/cosmolg...

Image Credits:

NASA
Galaxy Filament By Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato - Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris, [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-phy... illumination: what lights up the universe?], UCLA press release, 27 August 2014. flickr.com (high resolution version), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Observable Universe By Andrew Z. Colvin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Red Shift Map By Piquito veloz - This image was created with Celestia. Redshift lines is a free addon of Selden Ball&039;s Graticules and customized by DRJMOS for educational purpose., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Alan Guth By Betsy Devine aka Betsythedevine - Uploader&039;s Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Amundsen Telescope South Pole By Ketiltrout - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Hawking By woodleywonderworks - https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks..., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Spontaneous creation of almost scale-free density perturbations in an inflationary universe
James M. Bardeen, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Michael S. Turner
Phys. Rev. D 28, 679 – Published 15 August 1983
Paul Steinhardt By Sleepy Geek - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

00:00 Introduction
05:14 Holes In The Big Bang
13:03 Alan Guth (Cosmic Inflation)
24:35 The Burden Of Proof
33:23 Heresy (Holes In Inflation)