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Hello all, I'm new and this is my first Science forum I've ever joined.
I got interested in Physics about 3 years ago after reading a book called What Remains to be Discovered. It opened my eyes to a lot of things, especially Quantum Physics. But, the most difficult thing to wrap my head around was the Inflationary Universe. I had to read that part about 5 times just to understand what it was trying to say.
Here's what I'm still trying to grasp: Inflation caused the universe to under go a ginormous period of "size" inflation in about the amount of time it takes light to cross the nucleus of an atom (or less). What "aspect" of the universe actually inflated? The rest of the universe (matter/energy) can only expand at a certain rate, so it's behind in the race (I've read that at 300,000 years after the Big Bang the "universe" is only the size of our galaxy). So, the part that inflated was Space/Time? Keep in mind I didn't take Physics 101 in school so calculations are lost on me but I can grasp Concepts fairly well.
Thank you in advance, Darcy
I got interested in Physics about 3 years ago after reading a book called What Remains to be Discovered. It opened my eyes to a lot of things, especially Quantum Physics. But, the most difficult thing to wrap my head around was the Inflationary Universe. I had to read that part about 5 times just to understand what it was trying to say.
Here's what I'm still trying to grasp: Inflation caused the universe to under go a ginormous period of "size" inflation in about the amount of time it takes light to cross the nucleus of an atom (or less). What "aspect" of the universe actually inflated? The rest of the universe (matter/energy) can only expand at a certain rate, so it's behind in the race (I've read that at 300,000 years after the Big Bang the "universe" is only the size of our galaxy). So, the part that inflated was Space/Time? Keep in mind I didn't take Physics 101 in school so calculations are lost on me but I can grasp Concepts fairly well.
Thank you in advance, Darcy