These results support the prediction of inflationary models with very little bias.

A better model, called the chaotic inflationary model, was put forward by Linde in 1983.

The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion, as in the inflationary models.

The way these non-uniformities depend on direction seems to agree with the predictions of the inflationary model and the no boundary proposal.

Even after inflationary models became accepted, the cosmological constant was thought to be irrelevant to the current universe.

The new inflationary model was a good attempt to explain why the universe is the way it is.

This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations.

So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe.

This explains the origin of cosmological perturbation fluctuations in inflationary models.

According to the inflationary model of cosmology, our universe grew out of less than ten kilograms starting in a region 10-24 cm.