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To: JoJo the Clown
Don't you agree?

I do not.

If not, I would be very interested to understand why you do not?

To me, it isn't a question of how the universe, after the Big Bang, would lose its perfect uniformity, but how could possibly be maintained? The uniformity isn't stable, on any level. At the crude level of matter distribution, you have quantum fluctuations that are intrinsically random, and these are constantly being magnified exponentially by the "butterfly effect" (deterministic chaos).

But there are deeper levels of non-uniformity having to do with the structure of the vacuum that must be avoided when "growing" a universe. Early cosmological models were plagued by an unsupportable density of "flaws" in the vacuum: magnetic monopoles (analogous to point dislocations in the growing of a crystal), cosmic strings (analogous to screw dislocations), and domain walls (analogous to fractures). We do not observe any of these structures in the universe. At the level of quantum field theory, the universe is far more uniform than we would naively expect it to be.

Inflationary models solved this problem by starting with a tiny region of space containing a small number of flaws and stretching it to gigantic size; the number of flaws remains constant for topological reasons, so the density goes rapidly to something close to zero.

109 posted on 01/09/2002 4:16:21 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Inflationary models solved this problem by starting with a tiny region of space containing a small number of flaws and stretching it to gigantic size; the number of flaws remains constant for topological reasons, so the density goes rapidly to something close to zero.

I am not a particle physicist but the "flaws" are a result of the CP mirror?

http://home.fnal.gov/~prebys/talks/rochester_20010926.pdf

112 posted on 01/09/2002 4:22:42 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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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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