On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> 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. But Clark > disputes this conclusion. He claims the opposite; that the rate of > expansion in the very early universe was exceedingly SLOW. * *But Clark has never made that claim, and I should know because I am the world's greatest expert on that man. Galaxies in the past were expanding slower from each other than they are today, but that was NOT a time when the universe was "very young". Galaxies didn't even start to form until about 100 million years after the Big Bang. * > *> If that's the case, can we conclude that the theory of Inflation must > be false, * *That is a strange conclusion to make given the fact that if the theory of Inflation is correct then the rate of expansion of the very early universe was approximately 10^52 (10,000 trillion trillion trillion trillion) times faster than it is today. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* r55 > -- 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/CAJPayv2E04GS0H9-vRR305SdJwa1m5XBSXc8oTtyonQFbLudfg%40mail.gmail.com.
