[KenGee (Kenith Gee)]

Originally Posted by Archy

If you believe energy is a construct, stand in front of a moving car.

The potential energy has changed into kinetic energy and heat.

LOL, no thanks but does that mean you can tell the rest of us what energy is then, I'd love to hear it.
Alex it's important to remember what you are calling inflation theory is in fact a flavour of the big bang model of creation.
Inflation was included into the big bang theory to keep it in line with the know facts, as I said before a theory has to be consistent with all the know facts. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_cosmo_infl.html
What is it that you don't like about it, the rate of expansion or the bonding of the amount of "energy" within the universe. It seems to me that the very thing you seem not to like about Inflation is one of the things it explains really well. Can you expand please on what your thoughts are.