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- From: spock@maths.tcd.ie (Thomas G. Hayes)
- Subject: Simple poser about the earky universe
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.195607.210@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:56:07 GMT
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- I was just reading the other day that some satellite (Hubble I think)
- has found variations in the background radiation of the universe.
- Now, some astro-physicists would like to take this as strong evidence
- for the inhomogenity of the early universe, whereas others take the
- variations to be a result of the gravitational waves created during
- the inflationary period of the universe.
- Now, the question I want to ask is this:
- Could not the gravitational waves have actually caused the
- inhomogenities in the first place? If an area of space is compressed
- by a gravitational wave, surely this area is more dense than the
- surrounding areas? If not, why not?
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