Does it work? Does inflation really explain why our seemingly unnatural initial conditions are actually quite likely? I want to argue that inflation by itself doesn’t answer these questions at all; it might be part of the final story, but it needs to be supplemented by some ideas about what happened before inflation if the idea is to have any force whatsoever. This puts us (that is to say, me) squarely in the minority of contemporary cosmologists, although not completely alone268; most workers in the field are confident that inflation operates as advertised to remove the fine-tuning problems
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