【#Tech24H】Scientists at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada have proposed a new theoretical framework for understanding the origin of the universe—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang and the earliest moments of existence. The study suggests that the rapid expansion of the universe in its early stages, known as inflation, may not be an independently introduced hypothesis but rather a natural consequence of a deeper, more unified theory of quantum gravity.