On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 6:24:03 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:41 AM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> *> not all points external to an observer are receding at speed faster >> than light. Still, ISTM that inflation just preserves the temperature >> distribution which exists when it began,* > > > The idea is before inflation a small volume was able to achieve thermal > equilibrium within itself even though the universe was very very young > because the volume was so small. But then that small volume started to > expand faster than light and exponentially doubled in size at least 100 > times every 10^-35 seconds, and today that super tiny volume is our entire > observable universe. The FTL expansion is why very distant parts of the > CMBR are at almost exactly the same temperature even though today they are > not causally connected. And the random quantum variations that must have > existed in that very tiny volume before inflation started explains why the > temperature of the CMBR is *almost* the same everywhere but not exactly so. > >
*How are the random quantum fluctuations due to the UP related to temperature variations? Are you assuming that each different quantum measurement of energy corresponds to a different temperature? TIA, AG * > > John K Clark > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
