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To: Physicist
Sorry, that doesn't answer my question. The issue IS how a singularity can become a universe that is in fact, non-uniform, without resorting to an explanation that requires an external influence on the distribution of matter from the singularity. Quantum mechanics does NOT explain the resulting non-uniformity. No one has ever adequately explained how non-uniformity can result, but I gave you a shot. I thought I would let you take a stab at it anyway.
145 posted on 01/11/2002 7:57:03 PM PST by JoJo the Clown
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To: JoJo the Clown
Quantum mechanics does NOT explain the resulting non-uniformity.

Yes, It Does!

Let's assume a totally uniform distribution of energy. With a high enough energy density, particles will be pulled out of the vacuum. This is an intrinsically random process; the particles will not appear simultaneously on the points of a lattice*, but will have a random distribution. Random distributions by nature have areas of differing density. As in the distribution of cancer cases in the U.S., the dense lumps don't require a cause. Any resulting lumps will be amplified by the effect of gravitational collapse.


*Moreover, even if the particles did appear on the points of a lattice, there may still be a "handle" upon which gravity could act, because you cannot have a lattice that is free of multipole moments to all orders. The resulting non-uniformities may be of regular size, shape and spacing, but they'd exist. It all comes back to the fact that a particle, by definition, is itself a localized (read: non-uniform) concentration of energy.
146 posted on 01/12/2002 3:13:27 AM PST by Physicist
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