re: #220 LudwigVanQuixote

Hey Hoops, glad you are here…and yes in that particular

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 ( 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.

Exactly.. That is the area of math that interests me…and I dispute c as a constant for 13 billion years..( Can’t prove it )
but during the expansion period is where all the mystery of lights roots are…Very interesting…Talk to you on the next science thread….
Thanks