Before inflation the gravitational field had already separated from the other fundemental forces and could act upon matter if
matter existed. Before inflation was the universe was too hot to allow for nucleosynthesis? Was inflation was required to
reduce the density/energy so nucleosynthesis could begin and to ensure that once matter was being created the density was
low enough so that as the gravitational force increased with the the increasing amount of matter the density was too low
to for the gravitational force to stop the expansion? If this is correct was the amount of inflation just enough so the rate
of expansion was greater than the rate the gravitational force was increasing due to the rate of matter being increased?