AN INFINITY OF WORLDS: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

In the beginning, was the Big Bang--in which the first elements were forged. Kinney explains a more recent theory on the origins of the universe-cosmic inflation. He explains that inflation is a remarkable unification of inner space and outer space, in which the physics of the cosmos meets the physics of elementary particles, closing in a full circle at the first moment of time. Illus.