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Why do cosmologists assume that inflation began shortly after the Big Bang, rather than at the exact start?

Somehow, I have never come across an explanation of why cosmologists claim that the alleged inflation of the very early universe occurred not at the Big Bang, but very shortly afterwards (~10^-36 to ...
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