Post by Joel OlsonPost by Joel Olsonhttp://phys.org/news/2012-12-defects-space.html
"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an alternative."
Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive
behavior in a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was
developing. They are looking at the physical and not the chronological.
We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with
magic is simply dreadful.
And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever.
Perhaps real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine
things like that.
Like time had been one of the curled up dimensions and suddenly
unfolded?
Well said. Not the whoosh of time, but the literal tick-tock of time, it is
quantized. We're just too slow to accept everything is quantized. They
suppose a timeline after the Big Bang through "inflation", but your folded
dimension theory suggests their timeline is magical thinking, or nothing at
all, probably. We need to get creative in our analyses. Feynman said
something to the effect that he didn't understand QED but he believed it.
We do not understand time, it's nature, its quantum state, its field, or its
consequence. Einstein's brilliance was to factor time into the equation as
an equal to space. Space is nothing but quanta, all matter and energy, in
their construction and behavior, and so is time.
I'm late for my nap. :-)
Happy Foot of Heavy Snow and 60 mph Winds. The Kubota is with blower and
ready for it.