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12.5 Mechanisms for Inflation 253One now needs to ask several further questions: “Whatcould cause such a vacuum energy density?”, “How and whydid inflation stop?”, “How does this solve any of the previouslymentioned problems?”, and “What are the observationalconsequences of inflation?”.12.5 Mechanisms for Inflation“Using the forces we know now, youcan’t make the universe we know now.”George SmootTo predict an accelerating scale factor, an equation of staterelating pressure P and energy density ϱ of the form P =wϱ with w

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