Inflaton, Mother of the Universe

quantalm writes "Forget the god particle, we're talking about the universe's particle mother. The theory of supersymmetry has rolled out two new ideas about the particle that puffed spacetime up from smaller than a proton to bigger than a soccer ball: it could be the 'unified particle' of Grand Unified Theories or a smaller-scale version that could be tested at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."

Comments

someone has to say it, don't they?

[mycologistica]

i, for one, ... ah forget it.

Re:inflaton?

[Anonymous Coward]

My Infaltron arrived in the mail in a plain brown wrapper. She's wonderful. I think I'm in love.

Re:Brief(!) Explanation of Inflation

[Anonymous Coward]

black hole hits critical mass
black hole explodes
expanding galaxy created
stars coalesce along with planets from gas and matter in the expanding galaxy
galaxy expands until gravity slows it down
gradually stars in the center of galaxy attract to each other and collide forming bigger stars
these collide into a super star
super star pulls stars around it in
super star collapses under it's own mass and gravity into a black hole
more and more stars get pulled into black hole
it becomes a super massive black hole
expansion slows until it stops
contraction begins
eventually entire galaxy gets pulled into SMBH, or enough of galaxy for it to hit critical mass
big bang

rinse, wash, repeat.

Gravity, though seemingly weak, eventually slows the galaxy down enough to where it begins contracting again.