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> Inflation And Gravity, why can't gravity be a result inflation?
dudeness
Posted: Jul 19 2010, 05:21 AM


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why could gravity not be the result of inflation?
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brucep
Posted: Jul 19 2010, 06:57 AM


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QUOTE (dudeness @ Jul 19 2010, 05:21 AM)
why could gravity not be the result of inflation?

Since you are discussing the inflationary model the opposite is true. Read the following discussion by Alan Guth

http://web.mit.edu/physics/news/physicsatm...2_cosmology.pdf

Excerpt to tantalize the readers:

"According to general relativity, however, there is a gravitational effect which is very important under these circumstances. Pressures, like energy densities, create gravitational fields, and in particular a positive pressure creates an attractive gravitational field. The negative pressure of
the false vacuum, therefore, creates a repulsive gravitational field, which is the driving force behind inflation."

I really enjoy reading Alan Guth. He's so easy to read and the subject matter [cosmology] is just so fascinating. His book "The Inflationary Universe" is a wonderful story about the discovery of a great physics model and a treatise on the history of modern cosmology. I hope that he and Linde get a Nobel some day.
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