Talk:Inflaton

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The original article discussed the concept in terms of an inflaton field. Cantus' rewrite of the first sentence makes it much clearer but a reader might be confused by the use of "particle". True, a particle is associated with the field but it reads as though one particle is responsible for the inflationary epoch. Here's a reference that discusses the topic in terms of a scalar field:

http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Kolb/Kolb3.html

I've made some changes to try to make the article easier to grasp.

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Can you reference a source for the 10^-50 m to 1 m expansion figures? My research shows an expansion from 10^-24 to 10²⁶. (add 4 tildes to the end of your comment.) T

The figure does seem a little low for inflation. 219.88.76.119 00:52, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Dembski?

He isn't a physicist. His views on the subject aren't relevant. And even if they were relevant, this particular view has nothing do do with the inflaton scalar field or cosmology.

[edit] Edits by User:Bhenderson

A new user continues to make edits to this page that are slightly problematic. The prose he includes doesn't add any substantive information to the article and introduce a misconcpetion that inflation accounts for the current scale of the universe (which it doesn't because expansion is still occuring). --ScienceApologist 15:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)