On 7 June 2014 13:20, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Well, thank you again. As a - I like to think - budding writer, it is my belief that I should put as much thought into everything I write as I would into a poem, novel etc. Not that I always live up to that, especially when in a rush.
And I still think you are right about the BB not really existing, and that Hoyle had the right idea. -- 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.
