On Monday, July 14, 2025 at 10:52:44 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote:
Galaxies formed waaay after the Big Bang and we can't actually observe anything earlier than the recombination around 400,000yr after the BB. I am aware of that. Nevertheless, the red shift of distant galaxies indicates that they were receding at huge velocities, obviously after they were formed. According to Inflation theory, there was a HUGE, HUGE expansion immediately after the BB, which lasted for a TINY, TINY fraction of the first second. This is generally accepted within the physics community since it answers some pressing issues such as the uniformity of the CMB. AG I don't know what JKC said about the speed of early expansion, but it seems to be increasing so it will be faster in the future than it was in the past. He claimed the early rate of expansion was exceedingly slow, and that the red shift we now observes indicates the current receding velocity. AG Brent On 7/14/2025 7:30 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: Given the fact that light from very distant galaxies is hugely red-shifted, and the general belief that light we're observing today from those distant galaxies, was emitted when the universe was very young, one would conclude that the rate of expansion at that time was huge. But Clark disputes this conclusion. He claims the opposite; that the rate of expansion in the very early universe was exceedingly SLOW. If that's the case, can we conclude that the theory of Inflation must be false, insofar as it alleges a huge initial expansion rate to account for the observed uniformity of the current universe? Moreover, Hubble's law confirms that as we go back in time, the universe was expanding faster than it is today, again apparently confirming the Inflation theory of a very high initial rate of expansion (ignoring recent findings the the rate of expansion is iagain ncreasing). AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/349317b9-35cd-413a-9eaa-296b2a123cefn%40googlegroups.com.
