Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

close enough to be causally connected; the concern about needing
processes faster than light would disappear because these parts were
had brought themselves into equilibrium would be so far isolated
uniform expansion, giving a uniform energy density.
and time?
Another problem is the smaller-scale irregularities. What caused
the galaxies and clusters of galaxies?
give rise to the equilibrium necessary for the homogeneity and
isotropy we see now.
But equilibrium is never perfect; there are always small
distributed these irregularities throughout space in a random
nature of them such that they would form the seeds necessary
to spawn galaxies.
Skeptics, however, contend that the seeds planted by
universe was still too hot. Protons and electrons may have
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