2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11135Inflation is a bold and expansive extension of the Standard Cosmology. It holds the promise to extend our understanding of the Universe to within 10^{-32}sec of the big bang and answer most of the pressing questions in cosmology. Its boldest assertion is that all the structure observed in the Universe today arose from quantum-mechanical fluctuations on subatomic scales. A flood of cosmological observations and laboratory experiments are testing inflation and within five years we should know whether inflation is to become part of a new standard cosmology.25 pages LaTeX (cupconf.sty) with eps figures. To be published in Relativistic Astrophysics: A Conference in Honour of Igor Novikov's 60th Birthday (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997)AstrophysicsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext