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Gerinski
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Inflationary Theory postulates that the inflaton field and its associated particle were responsible for a huge space expansion in the very early universe. Now we observe again positive expansion, albeit at a very moderate rate, which we attribute to "dark energy" / "cosmological constant".
Could it be that both have anything in common? That dark energy is a sort of very weak remnant of the inflaton process?
Even in theory, do the inflaton expansive effect on spacetime have anything in common with the expansive effect of the cosmological constant? Or are they fundamentally different in any sense, even if both cause space to expand?
TX
Could it be that both have anything in common? That dark energy is a sort of very weak remnant of the inflaton process?
Even in theory, do the inflaton expansive effect on spacetime have anything in common with the expansive effect of the cosmological constant? Or are they fundamentally different in any sense, even if both cause space to expand?
TX