Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> My impression was that the problem was how to explain the
> mass-distribution discontinuities (that caused the coalescence of
> galaxies) when the whole Universe was in causal contact; that inflation
> was postulated to provide a period when rapid expansion inflated small
> variances into large discontinuities without permitting the system to
> equalize. I yield, however, to superior knowledge.
>
> Doesn't make a difference; the point is that in the standard cosmology
> the early Big Bang was in causal contact.
Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics