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Analogies<br />

The creation <strong>of</strong> density perturbations during inflation has several<br />

analogues in other areas <strong>of</strong> physics:<br />

Hawking radiation from a black hole is very similar, with the event<br />

horizon taking the place <strong>of</strong> the particle horizon in the case <strong>of</strong> inflation.<br />

Perhaps more interestingly, there is an analogous situation in<br />

electrodynamics.<br />

uni<strong>for</strong>m electric field<br />

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