10-10-2010, 12:52 PM
Thanks Etude. Along with βαθμιαίος, I need to thank you from the sidelines.
I studied math through algebra/trig. When I see an equation and a graph, I can study and eventually recognize the connection. It's not at all intuitive for me, it takes a lot of work that never happens with one glance. I know a little bit about the ideas of calculus, but never fully studied it. Any physics that is based on equations is something I can only respect from a distance. It seems that it's probably too late in this lifetime for me to really understand the math used by people like Penrose.
I don't understand how infinitely spread out expansion can be the same as infinitely compressed singularity. That just boggles my brain.
I studied math through algebra/trig. When I see an equation and a graph, I can study and eventually recognize the connection. It's not at all intuitive for me, it takes a lot of work that never happens with one glance. I know a little bit about the ideas of calculus, but never fully studied it. Any physics that is based on equations is something I can only respect from a distance. It seems that it's probably too late in this lifetime for me to really understand the math used by people like Penrose.
I don't understand how infinitely spread out expansion can be the same as infinitely compressed singularity. That just boggles my brain.