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Re:Study reveals new details on what happened in the first m... by denton-scratch on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:05AM (#27288456)
Inflation models may be more mainstream; unfortunately, the evidence for inflation is rather thin. Inflation is a "theory" that purports to explain the unexpected smoothness of the cosmic microwave background.

It is not a good theory, because it makes no predictions that are testable, even in principle. I think the unexpected smoothness of the CMB is evidence that the big bang theory is not correct; fixing the big bang theory by bolting on inflation looks to me like mathematical voodoo.

Re:Study reveals new details on what happened in the first m... by wyager on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:21AM (#27289554)
I’ve never understood the claim that CMB homogeneity implies those regions need to be causally connected in a traditional sense; they might be “causally connected” by the fact that they obey the same physics. Even if you don’t accept that the physical laws themselves could be spread over a spacelike boundary, it could at least appear that way due to selection rules (the same way entanglement collapse can appear superluminal without being so under MWI).