Brian O

Linked telescopes with large separations have been used to look at black holes. A further step would be to launch three large telescopes into an orbit around the sun at the Earth's Lagrangian points. This would give three telescopes at 120 degrees from each other. Two would be in stable positions at 60 degrees from the Earth and one at 180 degrees, directly behind the Sun. They would be in direct sight of each other and two would be in direct contact with the Earth. If this were to work, the next step could be to use similar positions around Mars or any other planet. Any thoughts?

Sorry for the tentative terminology. I'm trying to get my head around a time without matter as we know it. On further reading, I find that inflation most likely occurred before the existence of Higgs Bosuns and mass. Maybe before the existence of photons. So if there were no point particles or photons at the time, where can we start any measurements and what form of energy existed?

So I can see that inflation is an expansion of space rather than any matter within it. But even if the embryonic universe consisted exclusively of energy, each photon would be moving away from its neighbours at more than the speed of light. Maybe we are dealing with a pure form of energy without a mass equivalent, perhaps in a phase of matter somewhat more energetic than a plasma. Can anyone help me out here, please?

Faster than light inflation at the birth of the universe has always been a great problem. What if the universe began as a sea of entangled particles in a single quantised state which was only stable at a limited number of sizes? The universe would be infinitesimal and large at the same time but would stay like that forever until something happened to collapse the alternative states. It might be that two or more fluctuations took place at the same time and/or in the same space and only one stable size was compatible between them. Thus, a jump between a small point and a finite sized universe could occur before time as we understand it existed without the need for a faster than light expansion . Any thoughts?