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2. MOTIVATING INFLATION: THE COSMOLOGICAL FEATURES/PROBLEMS

It turns out that most of the cosmological ``problems'' that are usually introduced as a motivation for inflation are actually only ``problems'' if you take a very special perspective. I will take extra care to be clear about this by first presenting these issues simply as ``features'' of the standard Big Bang, and then discussing circumstances under which these features can be regarded as ``problems''.