I thought that theory had issues with quantum gravity?
But either way, inflation would happen in that 10^-33 span I mentioned above. We simply don't know.
And even if we assume it holds, inflation is an extremely rapid expansion of space-time, so the idea that there were things "very far from each other" still does not really hold.
And IIRC, Penrose and Hawkings disproved the idea that inflationary models can avoid an initial singularity[1]. I'd be somewhat surprised to see them disproven.
But either way, inflation would happen in that 10^-33 span I mentioned above. We simply don't know.
And even if we assume it holds, inflation is an extremely rapid expansion of space-time, so the idea that there were things "very far from each other" still does not really hold.
And IIRC, Penrose and Hawkings disproved the idea that inflationary models can avoid an initial singularity[1]. I'd be somewhat surprised to see them disproven.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking_singul...