From an article I read yesterday, I learned terms cosmic inflation and the graceful exit. Surprisingly, or not depending on you interpreted those terms if you didn’t know what they meant, cosmic inflation had nothing to do with finance or economics, and the graceful exit didn’t have anything to do with any kind of exit I could fathom, let alone graceful ones. Rather, cosmic inflation involved cosmology, the study of the origin and evolution of the universe, and graceful exit still didn’t have anything to do with any kind of exit I could fathom.

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