Re: Inflation and the total size of the universe

2020-03-23 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:54 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *> Krauss, for example, says the universe was "a billionth of a billionth > the size of a proton" before inflation began.* Krauss was talking about the size of the observable universe, the size of the un-observable universe before inflatio

Re: Inflation and the total size of the universe

2020-03-23 Thread Lawrence Crowell
Inflation was initiate 10^{-35}sec after the quantum fluctuation appearance of the observable cosmos, and this had a duration of 10^{-30}sec. The cosmological constant averaged around Λ = 10^{48}m^{-2}. If I divide by the speed of light squared this comes to 10^{32}s^{-2} and we get √(Λ)T = 10^

Re: Inflation and the total size of the universe

2020-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 8:16:15 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:55 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *> According to some cosmologists, Krauss?, the duration of inflation is >> about 10^-35 seconds, which is presumably the duration necessary to create >> isotropy and

Re: "theoretical physics today is something more akin to the philosophy of Plato"

2020-03-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 20 Mar 2020, at 07:26, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > "As we investigate beyond [what we can test], we look to elegant, > aesthetically pleasing [theories]. As a result, much of theoretical physics > today is something more akin to the philosophy of Plato than the science to > which the phy

Re: Inflation and the total size of the universe

2020-03-23 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:55 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> According to some cosmologists, Krauss?, the duration of inflation is > about 10^-35 seconds, which is presumably the duration necessary to create > isotropy and homogeneity in a universe of age 13.8 BY. If these assumptions > are correct, c