On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 8:34 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:

>> if inflation is correct and in the very early universe the distance
>> between any 2 points expanded faster than light then they've moved beyond
>> their observable horizon and once you've done that you can't go back, so
>> even today a beam of light sent from one of those points can never reach
>> the other.
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> *> Right, and that's how the non-observable region is created during
> inflation, but it would occur independent of the rate of expansion,
> provided the expansion continues. Like I said, it's a purely geometric
> effect of expansion. AG *
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Then I'm not sure what we're arguing about. Have you endowed the word
"purely" with some meaning not in common usage?

John K Clark






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