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What are VMs and Blog-entries?

Any insights, if you could state some?

So you're talking about virtual particles and real particles alike?

But don't quantum fluctuations violate the conservation of energy?

How do quantum fluctuations originate?

GR = General Relativity, right?

Thank you, I get it now. I wasn't really talking about expansion per se...I was wondering if there's anything that affected the rate of flow of time...because initially I thought inflation affected the rate of time as well.

The above was your reply to this, I guess: But you quoted this:

I wasn't really talking about spacetime as a whole...I was talking about space and time independently... Although it's understood that inflation didn't have any effects on the temporal dimension, I can't really make sense of the example given...if it's an infinitely finite system made up of...

I guess you quoted the wrong thing while saying this.

That's exactly what I thought initially, but later when I realized that Wikipedia (and many other sources) specifically talk about 'space' in Inflation Theory, I became doubtful...

With 142 views on this thread already, I think you're right because nobody said otherwise.

If the inflationary epoch would've been longer/shorter, the rate of expansion of space would've been affected, right? So is there any such 'factor' that might've affected the rate of flow of time? (I know this is a stupid question, but this just occurred to me right now)

If we consider the Hartle-Hawking state, did inflation occur before the introduction of time?

"In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation is the exponential expansion of space in the early universe. " -Wikipedia Since Inflation Theory specifically talks about 'space', does it mean that inflation didn't have any effects on the temporal dimension...