Echoes Quote by Neil Turok

Inflation is really like drugging the baby universe with speed. The supercool union of the hitherto unfriendly gods was blessed by amphetamine, and this…

— Joao Magueijo

'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.

— Seth Shostak

“We recall that the term inflation stands for the explosive growth of the universe by a factor of 10^50 in the time span between…

— Henning Genz

“Chapter 2: How could an infinite space get created in a finite time? It sounds impossible. But as I mentioned, inflation is like a…

— Max Tegmark

“Inflation is continuous and eternal, with big bangs happening all the time, with universes sprouting from other universes. In this picture, universes can “bud”…

— Michio Kaku

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

— Stephen Hawking

“At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created by dint…

— Henning Genz

If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting.…

— Stephen Hawking

“the universe may, in fact, be bigger than this, because the notion of inflation suggests that in the first second of its existence, the…

— David Christian

The universe is popping all over the place.

— Riccardo Giacconi

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

— Stephen Hawking

We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing…

— Kip Thorne