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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Physical objection to Vacuum Genesis (Try II)
Message-ID: <1461@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 13:05:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1461
Posted: Tue Jun 30 13:05:49 1987
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: multiple inflations
Summary: We may have started as pretty small potatoes


You guys seem to be arguing back and forth on the basis that this universe
started out as some hugely energetic particle.  Is this necessarily so?

Inflation theory suggests that a "crystalization" or "precipitation" occurred
as a phase change from one vacuum to another, adding tremendously to the
energy of the system (our proto-universe).

We still can't see anything before 10**-43 second or so.  Who's to say that
there weren't several prior inflations?  Our universe may have started out as
nothing more impressive than an electron, uncountable numbers of which boil
into and out of existance each second in miniscule portions of our vacuum.

Perhaps our minimal sized particle happened to be unusually long lived
enough to undergo a first inflation, and things cascaded from there.

Eduardo, you need to go back and look at some elementary probablity theory.
Any event with non-zero probability (the usual example is all the air in a room
rushing to one side) will take place with probability unity over an infinite
timespan, which an empty universe certainly had to come up with its first
particle.

Kent.
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I code reactor power plant control in C.
I add "count_of_recent_alarms" to "count_of_rods_to_lift".
C is weakly typed; the compiler doesn't notice.
A major coolant valve sticks, a spate of alarms occur.
All die.
Oh, the embarrassment!