What is the name of the period in the Early Universe during which the Universe expanded very rapidly as a quantum system?   a. Inflation.   b. Cosmic Microwave Background.   c. Gravitational Collapse.   d. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.

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What is the name of the period in the Early Universe during which the Universe expanded very rapidly as a quantum system?

  a.

Inflation.

  b.

Cosmic Microwave Background.

  c.

Gravitational Collapse.

  d.

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.

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