Liz, In my theory one possible explanation of inflation could be an initial vast difference in the rates of p-time and clock time. I'm not saying that is the only explanation but it is a consistent one in my theory.
Thus it is meaningful to derive the radius of my proposed 4-dimensional hyperspherical universe to test that theory among others. If we compare the 13.7 billion CLOCK time radius with some quite different P-time radius then we can begin to narrow that down and get some quantitative measure of the differences in rates. Edgar On Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:47:26 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > Omega=1 (to within 0.4%) which means the universe is very close to flat > (or even "hyperflat"). This is what would be predicted by inflation (which > is just as well, because I believe inflation was invented specifically to > solve the "flatness problem" !) > > If one treats the universe as having uniformly expanded from a point in > hyperspace, this measurement would make it very large (and hence, naively > one would think it was very old). But of course inflation means the > expansion was very, very nonuniform. Assuming the universe is a > hypersphere, it blew up to a huge size (by a scale factor of 10^78) in a > very short time (around 10^-33 sec), and then continued to coast at a much > reduced speed thereafter. This makes any measurement of the universe's > (hyper-) radius unlikely to give us a useful answer concerning "p-time" > (taken as roughly the distance of the universe from its hypothetical origin > in hyperspace divided by how fast it is expanding away from that point, I > assume). > > If this was a useful calculation, I think it would be reasonable to treat > the universe as an ideal fluid, where the only bound systems are atoms, for > the purpose of getting a rough answer. But I doubt that it would give any > sort of useful answer, assuming inflation really happened. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
