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 <agrays...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> 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. LC -- 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/2a27d344-0061-4690-9c2e-46dbc930a59f%40googlegroups.com.
