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martinbn said:Now you are cheating. Why 3 and 1 in the 3n+1 and not say 7 and 2? And what are they anyway without saying anything about space and time?
Yes I was glib in my answer, and Demytifyer is right my math background sometimes smacks me in the face . I don't want to say I was a smart ass - but I was on rereading it.
Cosmology isn't really my thing but my reading of some of the latest stuff is it started from this thing called the false vacuum that has its own parameters - that's the parameters used in labeling however you want to expand the state. Just a thought. But I think its more QFT than QM which makes it harder to decipher. I guess right now its a bit of a mystery. Maybe someone more conversant in cosmology can chime in.
Thanks
Bill