Another Subtle Triumph Of Relativistic Cosmology.

I've been maintaining that inflation blows things up really big, pushing stuff outside our horizon. (Or said another way, the stuff is pushed so far away that it can no longer effect us as it has been pushed outside our light cone.)

So:

1. If inflation happened, things should have been pushed outside our horizon.  (Think light-cone.)  
2. As said before, the quantum fields during inflation would create perturbations on all scales, including the scales being pushed out of our horizon.
3. After inflation stops, our horizon has a chance to "expand again" allowing those perturbations that got pushed outside our horizon to fall back in.
4. These perturbations allow for gravitational collapse to form things like galaxies out of the matter contained inside the perturbation.
5. Perturbations on the order of 1 Mpc (3 million light years) contain, given the density of matter in the universe, ~10^12 solar masses of matter and fell inside our horizon long enough ago to allow this matter to collapse into galaxies.
6. We see galaxies with 10^12 stars in them. Check!
7. Here's the kicker: Perturbations on the order of 10 Mpc fell into our horizon recent enough that there has not been enough time to have galaxies form from all the matter contained withen them.
8. We see no galaxies with 10^15 stars in them. Double check!
9. They have, however, re-entered long enough ago that we can measure stochastic properties of such perturbations confirming their existence.  Triple check.

This doesn't prove anythings as much as to say: what you should expect coming from inflationary cosmology is exactly what you see.  

(Repeating myself) Perturbations should have been created and, since inflation happened, pushed out of our light cone.  Those who fell in long enough ago should have formed things like galaxies with as much matter as is contained in such perturbations.  Those that are so large that they only fell into our horizon recently should not yet have formed galaxies containing all the matter they posses, meaning we should not see galaxies with their order of mass.  We don't.  We should however be able to discern they exist by their statistical properties.  They do and it is yet another subtle triumph for cosmology.

Think about it:
If the universe has really been around forever without anything like some inflationary phase: Why hasn't gravity pulled all the galaxies we see into bigger mega-galaxies by now?  Like always, inflationary cosmology provides the answer.