An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology

TL;DR

This paper provides a clear, educational overview of inflationary cosmology, explaining its significance, predictions, and observational tests, aiming to bridge technical and popular understanding of the subject.

Contribution

It offers a pedagogical exposition of inflationary cosmology, emphasizing its importance and testability for students and researchers new to the field.

Findings

Inflation explains large-scale structure formation.

Predictions of inflation are testable via cosmic background observations.

The paper bridges technical and popular explanations of inflation.

Abstract

This paper is intended to offer a pedagogical treatment of cosmological modeling and inflationary cosmology. In recent years, inflation has become accepted as a standard scenario making predictions that are testable by observations of the cosmic background. It is therefore manifest that anyone wishing to pursue the study of cosmology and large-scale structure should have this scenario at their disposal. The author hopes this paper will serve to `bridge the gap' between technical and popular accounts of the subject.