Inflaton Particle

[deoxy99]

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

[Dan Dixon]

Maybe you could provide a link?

[Bla]

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.

[InfoBloe]

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.

[deoxy99]

Here is the history of the universe:

[Bla]

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.

[deoxy99]

Cerenkov Radiation is made from particles being accelerated beyond the speed of light in water. So, that means you can do that.

[Bla]

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.

[atomic7732]

deoxy, whered you get the picture, it looks like its from a wikipedia timeline, with links.