Why I Still Doubt Inflation, in Spite of Gravitational Wave Findings | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network

Why I Still Doubt Inflation, in Spite of Gravitational Wave Findings | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network: ...inflation comes in so many different versions that it can give you “anything you want.” In other words, it cannot be falsified...

But here is what I’d like to see: First, corroboration of the BICEP2 findings by other groups and observatories. Second, experiments from high-energy physics that provide some sort of corroborating evidence of the driving mechanism of inflation. Third, an explanation of why the Alice’s Restaurant Problem isn’t still a problem. Fourth, an explanation of why only inflation, and not other more conventional physical phenomena, can account for the gravity-wave findings...