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Loading contentFleeting, unavoidable variations in the energy of a field, permitted by the uncertainty principle. Stretched to astronomical size during cosmic inflation, tiny quantum fluctuations are believed to have seeded the density variations we now see imprinted on the cosmic microwave background and grown into galaxies and clusters.
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