RE: Nature Article

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 22:06:30 MDT


At 09:02 PM 8/18/02 -0700, Lee wrote:

>I wasn't aware that it's generally accepted that only nothing
>existed before 10^-43.

No, but what was there prior to the start of force decoupling--and
obviously 10^-43 seconds is just a somewhat handwaving label for this
epoch)--was presumably a vastly compressed ball of indistinguishable Xons
(to coin a term for the unified-force particles). I suspect this wouldn't
give much traction for variation and selection.

Damien Broderick



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