Let PBS know what type of digital series you'd like to see by taking this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2016 How does Inflation solve the Big Bang’s problems? Get your own Space Time t-shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Help translate our videos! null Although much of the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted to be true, it only gets us part of the way there. Observable truths such as the CMB and the flatness of our universe reveal that there is no way the universe has been expanding at a constant rate since its beginning. It turns out Cosmic Inflation solves the Big Bang's major problems quite well. So well in fact, that we might not even need a Big Bang at all! FURTHER READING: Inflation (cosmology) http://bit.ly/1Meeff1 Cosmological constant http://bit.ly/25nlp7Z _____________________ COMMENTS: Frank Schneider null. DBlanding23 null. jodokastslo null. Omicron Vega null. ______________________ Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)