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The inflationary hypothesis was developed in the 1980s by physicists Alan Guth and Andrei Linde. Inflation explains the origin of the large-scale structure of the cosmos. Quantum fluctuations in the microscopic inflationary region, magnified to cosmic size, become the seeds for the growth of structure in the universe. Many physicists also believe that inflation explains why the Universe appears to be the same in all directions (isotropic), why the cosmic microwave background radiation is distributed evenly, why the universe is flat, and why no magnetic monopoles have been observed.

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Is the Brandt line accurate?

It may have been back in the 1980's when Willy Brandt proposed it, but it would probably need some tweaking 30 years on.


What hypothesis was developed to explain the shortcoming of Big Bang Cosmology?

Not sure what you are referring to, as the main rival to Big Bang Cosmology (BBC)-- the idea that our Universe has always existed in (about) its present state -- existed as far back as ancient Greek philosophers, and was held all cosmologists well into the 1900s. Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre first proposed an expanding universe as a physical reality (as opposed to a mathematical idea) with observational consequences in 1931, but the acceptance of a universe with a starting point was resisted until the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered in 1964. Inflationary cosmology -- a subset of BBC -- was developed by Alan Guth in 1980 to explain some observations that BBC, on its own, could not easily deal with.


How was the Brandt Line created?

The Brandt Line was a theoretical demarcation line proposed by ex-German Chancellor Willy Brandt and others in the 1970's and 1980's. It was designed to show how Southern Hemisphere economies were less affluent overall than those in the Northern Hemisphere.The Brandt Line is also known as the "North-South divide".


What year did Mount St. Helens erupt?

Mount St. Helens famously erupted on May 18, 1980. Smaller eruptions ocurred from 1980 to 1986, 1989 to 1991, and a few times from 2004 to 2008.


How did scientists link the impact of an asteroid to the extinction of the dinosaurs?

The asteroid collision theory, which was brought to wide attention in 1980 by Walter Alvarez and colleagues, links the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period to a bolide impact approximately 65.5 million years ago.

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