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bapowell
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Yes, I believe that many alternatives produce superhorizon correlations as well.
Chronos said:The Boltzmann brain concept is probably a leading example of logical reasons for dismissing the idea of a past eternal universe.
Garth said:I think what Chronos is saying is that in an past eternal universe/multiverse not only Boltzmann brains appear, an infinite number of times, but anything else logically possible you can possibly conceive of does as well an infinite number of times.
There is no way to test such an hypothesis and as a theory of anything is a theory of nothing it is totally outside the province of scientific inquiry. Good for science fiction though!
Garth
Khashishi said:Do people actually believe in magnetic monopoles? The non-observance of magnetic monopoles is only evidence for inflation if magnetic monopoles can be shown to exist.
Joe Ciancimino said:Some 30 years later we find out that ordinary electrons are monopoles
PeterDonis said:I don't see how spintronics shows that. Electrons have been known to have magnetic moments since the 1920's, but they are dipoles, not monopoles. Their magnetic moment arises from the fact that they have both electric charge and angular momentum; the combination of those two things makes a magnetic dipole.
Garth said:Inflation isn't short on falsifiable predictions, but that's the problem, there are too many of them.
Falsify one and an alternative is proposed, and then another, and then another...
Garth