Vox Hunt: I Don't Get It
Show us something you don't understand.
I don't understand the way that gauge variance worked in the hyperinflationary universe. I understand the broad outlines well enough [1], but the actual tensor math is a little beyond my abilities [2].
John
[1] Basically, what made a meter a meter didn't make a meter a meter until the universe was more than a femtosecond old or so, so that the earliest meters weren't meters at all but the equivalent of picometers; the evidence for this is in the anisotropic nature of the fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background radiation. But now a meter is a meter and so everything is groovy. (I have an extended analogy using cars and speed limits, but the previous description makes more sense and is more physically realistic.)
[2] Which my friends will probably say is good for me...
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