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In 1979 Alan Guth came up with the theory of cosmic inflation. A mechanism by which a proposed field named the inflaton would give rise to a period of massive expansion brought on by quantum fluctuations eventually bringing about the uniform distribution of matter in the universe that we see today. In 2013 it was shown by Andrei Linde that the most popular forms of the inflaton field in the physics community would give rise to the production of a huge amount of singularities making it inconsistent with what we observe today. Is there justifiable evidence today to still believe that eternal inflation is the most likely mechanism