Hi Ronald, Some people, myself included, would be a lot more comfortable with the whole inflation idea if a) there where some experimental evidence of the scalar fields that are required and b) some sound explanation where given as to how an in principle unknowable phenomenon - the BB singularity itself - is any different from a Creative Deity, sans only the anthropomorphisms. R. Penrose, in his book Road to Reality, brought up a very clear case that inflation does not solve the horizon problem when we consider causaly disjoint regions; has any one countered his arguement?
Kindest regards, Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "ronaldheld" <ronaldh...@gmail.com> To: "Everything List" <everything-l...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:22 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Questions I do not see the Inflation paradigm as ad-hoc, for it explains the flatness, Horizon problem and lack of early universe relics better than any other to date. Now the Big Bang may be replaced by oscillating solutions from LQG or other theories, but AFAIK they still need an Inflation period. Ronald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---