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Inflaton Particle
« on: December 22, 2009, 12:27:19 PM »
From what I learned in Wikipedia, inflatons are particles that cause inflation.

Talk about it.

Link to Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflaton
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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 04:08:04 PM »
Maybe you could provide a link?

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2009, 06:47:52 AM »
Interesting, I've never heard about "inflatons" before. But since vacuum is nothing, the lack of matter, I'm still a little bit confused about how it works. Since you can't accelerate matter above the speed of light, I assume the only way to make space inflate as much as it did during the inflation is by causing more vacuum, more of "nothing" to appear between objects.

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2009, 11:26:15 AM »
Since you can't accelerate matter above the speed of light.
Apparently there is more than Einstein, we are now believing that there is faster than the speed of light.

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2009, 02:36:14 PM »
Here is the history of the universe:


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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2009, 02:08:21 AM »
Since you can't accelerate matter above the speed of light.
Apparently there is more than Einstein, we are now believing that there is faster than the speed of light.
Calculations show that it requires infinite energy to reach the speed of light for matter. Because of that, accelerating something to a speed faster than light is impossible.
What we now believe is that we can move the space containing the matter instead of accelerating the matter itself. That's the idea behind warp drive and all that stuff, but I don't think any scientists believe it's possible for an object to be accelerated beyond c.

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2009, 10:56:51 AM »
Cerenkov Radiation is made from particles being accelerated beyond the speed of light in water. So, that means you can do that.

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2009, 03:40:40 AM »
I just wikipediaed that, and you're right.
Ok, it requires infinite energy to accelerate a mass to the speed of light in a vacuum. But now I'm close to getting off-topic, so just keep discussing the time-travel-thing.

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Re: Inflaton Particle
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2009, 07:02:22 PM »
deoxy, whered you get the picture, it looks like its from a wikipedia timeline, with links.