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What is Mass Inflation

Mass Inflation Inside Black Holes — Explanation & Equations

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Definition and summary Abstract from Poisson and Israel (1990), "Internal structure of black holes": "The gravitational effects associated with the radiative…
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A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Quantum Seeds

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 The CMB establishes a record of ancient acoustic oscillations in the baryon-photon plasma. We've been studying how these primordial sound…
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Did the Big Bang Have a Center? Explaining Cosmology

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Did the Big Bang Have a Center? What the standard models say According to standard cosmological models based on general relativity — and which agree…
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Big Bang, Inflation & Dark Energy — FLRW Cosmology

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Big Bang and expansion (no inflation, no dark energy) Einstein's General Relativity allows a solution (the FLRW metric) in which an effectively empty…
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LightCone8 Tutorial Part I

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LightCone 8 is a versatile tabulating/charting cosmological calculator, useful for understanding the expansion history of the universe (and even some future…
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Balloon Analogy Explained: Cosmology, Expansion & Limits

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The Balloon Analogy is a straightforward way to illustrate — without being complete — two important points of modern cosmology that many people find…
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Inflationary Misconceptions and the Basics of Cosmological Horizons

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Introduction It is a common saying that during inflation "space expanded faster than the speed of light."  This statement is meant to articulate the…