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On 29/02/2020 22:01, BillK wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 15:07, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"><extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org></a> wrote:</pre>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Wait a minute, isn't this just re-defining the big bang as something that happened after inflation?
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The meaning of the Big Bang Theory has developed and changed over the years.
Quote:
“Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a
bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.”
-Alan Guth
Originally the big bang theory was that because we are in an
expanding, cooling universe we could extrapolate backwards to a point
of infinite density, a singularity, that the universe exploded from.
But evidence has shown that idea to be wrong.
The inflation had to come first, creating a hot universe of matter and
radiation (quark-gluon plasma). This in turn created what we see today.
Detailed description here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-after-all-81844b973333" moz-do-not-send="true"><https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-after-all-81844b973333></a>
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So, Yes, it is.<br>
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Is there a (new) name then, for the event that started it all,
before inflation?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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