On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 9:21 AM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 5:46:50 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 3:03 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> In this case I was just responding to Bruce's certainty that inflation >>> is mostly a red herring. I highly respect his opinions, but in this case, >>> based on my study of this particular issue, I disagree. I am open to being >>> proved wrong, but insults don't cut it. At least you agree that inflation >>> does explain homogeneity. Aren't you curious about Bruce's take on this >>> particular issue? AG >>> >> >> Inflation can result in an increase in flatness and homogeneity. But that >> is relevant only if flatness and homogeneity were problems in need of >> explanation. >> >> Bruce >> > > The real problem is how did disparate regions of the universe become > uniform when there would have been no causal connection between them. In > particular with homogeneity inflation provides a mechanism whereby > deviations from homogeneity and isotropy are uniform. > Fine. Provided they were not uniform at the start. It is all a matter of distributions and in initial conditions. And you know nothing about either, so why solve a problem before you know it exists? Besides, can you achieve thermal equilibrium in a non-equilibrium state in 10^{-35} sec? Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLTipeufw5m_KW5VXHcQai3bPmsOsAgMhFYhjn45_Ahe_g%40mail.gmail.com.
