[rescue] more booty on the way

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 08:37 PM, Francisco Javier 
Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>>>> In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
>>>
>>> Actually there was an infinite amount of energy concentrated on a
>>> single
>>> tempo/spatial point (original singularity).....
>>
>>    Would that be the Pea Instanton, or a different theory?
>>
>
> Big bang theories require the presence of large amounts of energy 
> before
> the actual bang. Normally in the form of photons (so it is easier to 
> deal
> with the possible lack of actual mass). Basically physics laws hold 
> very
> nicelly once you accept that the energy was there to begin with, so we 
> can
> still keep the constant amount of E in the universe (E is neither
> generated nor destroyed, simply transformed).
>
> I believe the Pea Instanton tries to resolve the singularity issues... 
> but
> I do not know much about it, since many people do not take it seriously
> due to Mr. Hawking's use of quantum tunneling to make his model work. 
> It
> is all a matter of deciding how "concentrated" was the primordial soup 
> of
> the instanton. Usually you can deal with it as being "infinitelly"
> concentrated so that equations can match with the actual observations.

   Me and my big mouth. ;)

     -Dave

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