How Did Cosmic Inflation Affect the Geometry of the Universe

question 136

Multiple Choice

How did cosmic inflation affect the geometry of the universe?

• A) Inflation made the expansion rate so large that the gravity of normal matter was not enough to slow it down, even today. Thus the universe still has a hyperbolic geometry.
• B) By expanding it so much, inflation spread out the matter so much that the geometry became hyperbolic.
• C) By expanding it so much, inflation forced the universe to be flat.
• D) Inflation did not affect the geometry of the universe.

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