The Boring Universe: Is Inflation Incredibly Fast Or Painfully Slow?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 01:42
in Physics & Chemistry
Welcome to my first blog entry ever! I’ll dive right into a subject that can nicely showcase my style and worldview in order to let you all have a flavor of what to expect. We all know the Big Bang is the start of the universe, the mysterious “point of creation”. This is stated often still today, even by prominent physicists. It is also not true. The Big Bang is what you get when you extrapolate the today visible expansion of the universe into the past. One gets to the point where there is the so called “reheating” after inflation. The result of reheating is the Big Bang, a hot and dense state for sure, but it is not thought to be the beginning anymore. read more