Entropic Inflation

Understand

One of the major pillars of modern cosmology theory is a period of accelerating expansion in the early universe.

• This accelerating expansion, or inflation, must be sustained for at least 30 e--foldings.
• One mechanism used to drive the acceleration is the addition of a new energy field, called the Inflaton; often this is a scalar field.
• We propose an alternative mechanism which, like our approach to explain the late-time accelerating universe, uses the entropy and temperature intrinsic to information holographically stored on a surface enclosing the observed space.