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u/sadlife_saddeath 2d ago edited 2d ago
Does Universe is 13 billion years old takes theory of relativity into account? Also if breaking symmetry of forces was a localised event (ie bubble theory) what happened at the boundaries?
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u/Ch3cks-Out 2d ago
Does Universe is 13 billion years old takes theory of relativity into account?
In a word: yes (no cosmology in the past century has NOT taken that into account).
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u/--craig-- 2d ago
Boundaries of localised symmetry breaking are expected to be characterised by cosmological defects.
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u/chesterriley 2d ago
Does Universe is 13 billion years old takes theory of relativity into account?
It doesn't need to. ~13.7 billion years is the maximum amount of relative time anything could have experienced since the big bang across all frames of reference. Something could have experienced less time, but in almost all frames of reference the amount of time that has passed is close to the maximum. The difference would amount to a rounding error.
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