How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at ...

Inflation, in the context of the big bang theory, refers to the episode of exponential expansion of the very early universe indicated by particle physics' Grand Unified Theories (Extensive references ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

The quantity theory believes that the value of money, and the resulting inflation, are caused by the supply and demand of the currency. There are situations where increases in the money supply do ...

The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...

A growth scare in the economy has accompanied worries over a resurgence in inflation, threatening to potentially rekindle ...

Monetarism gained prominence in the 1970s. In 1979, with U.S. inflation peaking at 20 percent, the Fed switched its operating strategy to reflect monetarist theory. But monetarism faded in the ...

The primary goal of the mission is to probe the theory of “cosmic inflation.” The gist of the theory is that, back in the day — well, literally at the beginning of time and space ...