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 < > [email protected] <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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/afd58cc9-717f-4696-8223-9979e4db7872%40googlegroups.com.
