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One of the most significant developments of 20th century natural philosophy has been the acquisition, through astronomical observations and theoretical physics, of a substantial understanding of the earliest moments in the history of the Universe. The best current model for the origin of the Universe is known as the inflationary scenario in the Hot Big Bang model. This chapter describes the observational underpinnings of the Big Bang theory and some theoretical models based on it. The development uses elementary mathematics because this is the simplest way to describe much of physical science.