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The best available explanation of the observed uniformity of the universe is provided by inflation. However, as soon as this mechanism was proposed, it was realized that inflation, while explaining why our part of the world is so uniform, does not predict that this uniformity must extend to the whole universe ...

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(Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist, known as a pioneer of .

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Native Name: Андрей Дмитриевич Линде

Alternative Names: Andrey Dmitriyevich Linde • Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde

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Why is our universe so homogeneous?
Why is it not exactly homogeneous?
Why is it isotropic (same in all directions)?
Why all of its parts started expanding simultaneously?
Why is if flat (<big>Ω</big> = 1)?
Why is it so large? Answered by inflation

Many scientists are still ashamed of using the . Just as the friends of were afraid of using the name '', the opponents of the anthropic principle often say that they do not want to use the 'A' in their research.

... We live for a while in some state which is called ... there is no preferable coordinate system ... there is no preferable choice of time ...

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