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Originally Posted by Michael Noonan
So does this represent a continuation of the Guth free lunch with the expansion of space albeit at a much reduced rate?
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Well, Guth's free lunch was the balance between gravitational potential and the total mass energy, I believe, but inflation had a definite cause in the very early cosmic evolution.
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Originally Posted by Michael Noonan
Is this in order to replace dark energy as seen as a force driving the expansion of the universe.
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It's an attempted description of dark energy, how it acts, where it comes from....
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Originally Posted by Michael Noonan
What I am not seeing is the connection of how this cooling effect is related to the title of the OP which contends that "Space is boiling with energy" and I appreciate given the figures you cite that eye catching title is a bit overstated.
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Quite. It's an idea in development....
It does seem to be a residual "energetic space" effect from the brief period of exceedingly high expansion that Guth and others developed. That inflation only occurred due to the extreme conditions of a spacetime very different than ours! But it may have left over this tiny expansion effect...