Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>   Seemingly not, as there appears to be a hypothesis for a different particle
>>> that caused the cosmic inflation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflaton
> 
>> Damn. Inflation ended when the universe was only one meter across? Yow.
> 
>   I'm not sure it says that. It says how long it took for the universe
> to become 1 meter accross, not that the inflation ended there. (Also this
> seems to completely lack a reference, so it could be some editor's BS.)
> 

Good point.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_universe#Inflationary_epoch
implies it ended somewhere around 10^-32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflationary_epoch

And of course, they say "then the universe filled up with energy that came 
from potential energy."  I don't know how you store potential energy in a 
"field", so it's either way over my head, or BS. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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