On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 7:39:50 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 8:15 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On 9/22/2019 3:46 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> > every conceivable pattern that is possible can happen and would happen >> >> No. That is NOT the theory. The theory is that everything >> nomologically consistent with the initial conditions may happen. >> "Conceviable" is having a flat Earth and flying pigs. >> >> > I qualified it with "that is possible", I grant that "conceivable" becomes > superfluous with the "possible" constraint. Anyway, here is what Guth > writes: > > “This process will repeat itself literally forever, producing a kind of a > fractal structure to the universe, resulting in an infinite number of the > local universes […] Of course this fractal structure is entirely on > distance scales much too large to be observed, so we cannot expect > astronomers to see it. Nonetheless, one does have to think about the > fractal structure if one wants to understand the very large scale structure > of the spacetime produced by inflation. Most important of all is the simple > statement that once inflation happens, it produces not just one universe, > but an infinite number of universes.” He concludes, “In an eternally > inflating universe, anything that can happen will happen; in fact, it will > happen an infinite number of times.” > > -- Alan Gutth, "Eternal inflation and its implications" ( > https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0702178.pdf ) > > Jason >
Unless Guth can plausbily argue why eternal inflation must occur, the claim goes far behind mere speculation since it's already beyond our ability to observe. AG -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/afd58cc9-717f-4696-8223-9979e4db7872%40googlegroups.com.
