re: #184 HoosierHoops

Hi Ludwig! Hope today finds you well..
On the next science thread I’d like to discuss or at least help me with some math for earlier variable light measurements and theorum during the big bang.
It’s just an interesting hobby for me and we rarely meet up during a science thread..Dr. Carmac from the antimatter website thinks I may be misguided in the math…I’ll need a few pointers..

Hey Hoops, glad you are here…

C is a constant. I promise it is a constant. If it weren’t the energy bads would be different in distant spectra. c has been measured to be constant for at least 13 billion years.

I agree that the inflationary stage of the early universe is a giant mystery. It is obvious that for that to have happened, something very bizarre must have happened (and yes in that particular regime, c may not have been constant though there are other equivalent things that could also have happened). However, at those energy scales, we simply have no idea.

The string theorists have some ideas, but there is nothing close to a complete picture. What is obvious though is that as you increase in energy you find more and more symmetries. So, it looks like, at some point in the inflationary phase, the symmetry got broken and c became fixed. However the nature and details of that are completely unknown.