Physicist Sean Carroll has a deft article in the New York Times - TopicsExpress



          

Physicist Sean Carroll has a deft article in the New York Times that explains the greater significance of last weeks announcement. Carroll notes that work done by physicist Alan Guth suggests that the early universe was full of a type of energy dubbed the inflaton, which pushed space apart. But eventually this inflaton converted into matter, which tends to coalesce under gravity. Still, we have to wonder — if all the inflaton settled down into matter, why is the universe still expanding? Could something else have happened to the inflaton?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:23:39 +0000

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