[renormalised (Carl)]

There's the answer to the post about gravity waves and such. Now we know how it all began.....the Great Universal Mother was crocheting a pair of pants for her toddler and inflation was the time when she had to get them finished in a hurry because she had to rush off to the local CWA to give her speech on scone making. That's where all the little inhomogeneities came into being and the energy driving inflation was the friction between the crochet needles and the yarn