Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt and Abraham Loeb started a Cosmic Controversy over the very nature of inflation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6980
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations
https://physics.princeton.edu/~cosmo/sciam/assets/pdfs/SciAm.pdf

Regarding that article’s contents:

• One is pushed to ask, “How can so many smart people miss the obvious?”
• Our understanding of the big bang is wrong. Ask Neil Turok.
• Our various understandings of space and time are wrong. Ask Arkani-Hamed.
• Our understanding of infinity is wrong. Ask Max Tegmark.
• These three are right to be critical but they have no radically new insight.
• The obvious is a natural inflation; and within it, the obvious is base-2.
• The group of dissenters are all tied up in knots.
• The original authors are at least trying to break free. but, the big bang also has the universe in knots.
• Of course, at some time near the beginning there were sounds, but perhaps it was more like Kepler’s Harmonice Mundi ! In that light, this page will eventually be linked to an article about harmony.
• Maybe it all started simply and expands naturally using base-2 notation or simple doublings from the Planck units to the Age of the Universe.

Bruce

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Bruce E. Camber
http://81018.com
Austin, Texas

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