On 6 June 2014 23:46, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 Jun 2014, at 7:41 pm, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6 June 2014 19:39, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? >> >> I'm not sure if you're being sacastic or not, but if you're going to > nitpick, I feel that I have to at least attempt to clarify why I said what > I said. Yes, I admit that I have taken the Big Bang to mean the quark soup > / plasma that followed inflation, and I even thought that was what most > people thought of as the BB. So sue me. > > > Why do you feel I am being sarcastic? I thought what you wrote was amazing > so I said so. Is it actually possible to deliver someone an honest > compliment around here or is having a siege mentality mandatory? >
Sorry. It was just that you started by disagreeing with me so I wasn't sure if you really thought it was amazing. But since you did - thank you. -- 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.
