In her New Scientist article Studying the universe's origins hints that its beginning has no end (27 Nov 2019) physicist and feminist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein identifies a basic problem in physics:The old story from 1980 or so goes that in the beginning of space and time, space-time exploded out of nothing and then rapidly expanded." "We still don’t have an exact equation to describe the energy that governs inflation. What we have learned, however, is that ... it may be eternal." "Not everyone loves this idea. In the meantime, the search for the right energy equation continues ..."
As suggested in this blog's previous posts, solving problems in terms of general, contrasting predictions (identifying the first law of thermodynamics) amounts to a deeper understanding of equations we're already familiar with; namely: Einstein's and Schrödinger's (differentiating between generic priority as singular and directional quantities in alternating, p…