Not particularly. It seems to me that it was a way to solve the horizon problem, and had a few party tricks (such as a way to explain the creation of all matter by violating the law of conservation of matter), but was just another, "this seems reasonable, let's follow it" kind of theory. But my...
I tend to agree with Stephen Hawking's idea of before the big bang. Assume that the lattitude lines on Earth represent time intervals in the early universe. You would assume the big bang took place at the south pole, moving north (along time). So therefore, it is silly to ask what is "south" of...
I was reading about the VSL theory as an alternative solution to inflation that solves the horizon problem. My question is, wouldn't special relativity still hold true, just to a different value of c in the early universe? As in, if we have a varying value of c, wouldn't it still hold true that...