The black-hole big-bang theory hypothesized by Smolin and derived by Poplawski is also ruled out as it does not have a cosmic inflation phase. Richard
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:25 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/18/2014 3:13 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *meekerdb > *Sent:* Monday, March 17, 2014 6:16 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: First direct evidence of cosmic inflation > > > > The interesting question is which cosmogony models are ruled out by this. > I think it rules out the d-brane collision models and maybe other string > based models. > > > > Interesting. Could you be more specific why... is it because of the nature > of the signature of these ripples in spacetime. > > Chris > > > The brane-collision model was invented to explain why there wasn't b-mode > polarization in the CMB, in case there wasn't. It didn't require the > inflationary period. But I'm told by my more erudite friend Lawrence > Crowell that there are versions of the ekpyrotic model that will have > inflationary bubbles and b-mode polarization - so I guess only the simpler > collision model is ruled out. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
