Captain Ned wrote:That said, has anyone run Alan Guth's inflation model against the Three Laws of Thermodynamics, or is the inflation period somehow assumed to have happened outside/before the physical laws we can track back to when the CMB coalesced?
I finished college with a math minor, and I'd probably still be lost trying to figure that out. There comes a point where mathematics truly becomes its own language. Most of us don't ever go there. Cosmologists and theoretical physicists do. A lot.