The new worldview
that has emerged from inflationary cosmology suggests that distant
parts of the
universe are strikingly different from our local region. Most, if not
all of
these remote domains are beyond our cosmic horizon and cannot be
directly
observed. I will discuss the origin of the new worldview, the
conceptual
problems that it raised, and its possible observational tests.
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