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Originally Posted by renormalised
In any case, the BB was already in existence, in its basic form, long before any of these so called "fudge factors" existed, so what's the problem. None of their competing theories can adequately explain the observations made (especially the Horizon problem and the flatness of spacetime, for a start), so where's their great answers.
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Fudge factors are an anathema to science.
For example if I have a theory that gives the following theoretical predictions (a, b, c, d) but Joe Bloggs finds the experimental values to be (a+1, b+1, c+1, d+1), then according to our fudge factor friends all I have to do is add +1 to the theoretical values and hey presto theory agrees with experiment!
If science was only that easy.
Adding a fudge factor tells me absolutely nothing why the theory was wrong in the first place or the physical significance of adding "+1".
When comments are made that Inflation theory is nothing more than an elaborate fudge factor shows either a degree of ignorance or a distortion of the facts.
Regards
Steven