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Originally Posted by sjastro
Alex you must be living in a different Universe to mine.
In my Universe inflation only lasted for a fraction of a second where the Universe expanded from the size of an atom to that of a grapefruit. 
Steven |
Must be to do with relativity
Your view is of no surprise as I take all that I read as having another view point ... some say we started with a seed and others say the big bang was all over..and perhaps both may be correct for even if the size of a grapefuit the Universe is indeed the universe and, as it is all that is, a comparrision to anything we can relate to will be difficult no doubt.
Still my defence is simply it was out there someplace and I will not take responsibility for inventing my current belief as to what is laid down by "inflation" or anything that would lend support for the notion of inflation..
I simply dont buy it and I really feel that in doing so we may not pursue a more suitable and reasonable view...inflation has stopped questions asked that inflation sought to satisfy.
Still an expansion from an atom to the size of a grapfruit is a rather huge jump in size..relatively..and perhaps it is even easier to cast doubt upon the theory and its reasonableness as we can comprehend something very small and how magical it would be therefore even if say an ant were to expand in size such that it now matches a grap fruit..in a mere fraction of a second... I mean how could such a thing happen.
We talk of "space time" as if when such words are invoked we must accept mysterious notions as being reasonable but "space time" is not a mystery it is a geometric way of setting out what we observe in terms humans can work with....and I still suspect that the theory was grabed too eagerly in order to save the then dieing notion of the big bang...
But we all live in different Universes and we are each at the very center of the one to which we belong
Hope all is well in your Universe Steven
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alex