18. I think inflation was first proposed, in part, to explain
the striking homogeneity (although not perfect) of the cosmic microwave background radiation. How could vastly distant parts of the universe be at practically the same temperature unless all the parts were somehow causally connected to each other? Inflation helped explain that. Now we see how the seeds of non-homogeneity might have given way to galaxies, etc.
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