> On 7 Jun 2014, at 10:46 am, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
I actually thought that it was a typo you made but was amazed to see that you
wrote what you meant. In the explanatory process you taught me something that
excited me which is why I thought I had to tell you how amazing what you wrote
was.
Kim
>
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