How 'quantum foam' may have inflated the early universe

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For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but new research suggests that it may have been possible without it.

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[Unclear Engineer]

Interesting conceptualizing.

Now that we have discovered gravitational waves for real, I wonder what sorts of concepts can be developed for ideas besides everything once being at a single point in the past. For instance, could extremely large (the size we now think is the whole "universe") gravitational waves create an oscillating density "visible universe" that appears to us to be something that expanded from a single point?

We keep finding that there is "more out there" than current theories considered. So, if we are looking for something to explain what we currently cannot explain, limiting ourselves to self-contained effects instead of considering outside influences seems like an illogical limitation when searching for knowledge.