> On 6 Jun 2014, at 7:15 am, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 5 June 2014 22:09, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On 5 Jun 2014, at 12:28 pm, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyway, the Standard Model of cosmology says it got so big due to
>> > inflation followed by the big bang.
>>
>> Ummmm......following the big bang
> That depends if you take the big bang to mean the initial hypothetical
> singularity (which doesn't occur in eternal inflation) or the fireball that
> starts when inflation ends and ends when "recombination" occurs. I generally
> take the BB to include at least "the first 3 minutes", which puts it (or
> 99.9999999999999999999999...% of it) post-inflation.
OK - thank you for that amazing clarification. I don't know what I take the big
bang to mean. I think I probably deep down agree with Fred Hoyle who invented
the term for sarcastic reasons in the first place. Why do we "need" a big bang
at all? Why can't inflation account for the entire process?
Kim
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