Space.com has the article Cosmic Inflation: How It Gave the Universe the Ultimate Kickstart (Infographic).

In 1980 astrophysicist Alan Guth proposed the idea of cosmic inflation, a kind of repulsive gravity that pushes things apart rather than attracting them. Inflation caused an explosive scaling-up of space-time a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. In another fraction of a second, inflation slowed to a more leisurely expansion that continues to this day but is accelerating.

I am hoping this infographic will answer a lot of questions I have about general relativity and inflation/expansion.

There are still a lot of questions, but there are answers I have never dreamed of. Here is one in WikiPedia – Comoving and proper distances.

The integral below is formatted a little strangely, but if you read the description of the variables, you can make sense out of it. The a(t’) belongs under the c, not under the dt’.

Naked Capitalism has published the article Michael Hudson: How an “Act of God” Pandemic Is Destroying the West: The U.S. Is Saving the Financial Sector, Not the Economy.

When reading this article always remember that Hudson is talking about private debt owed by money users. This does not apply to public “debt” owed by money creators like the Federal government. In the USA, there are no money creators like the Federal government. Only the federal government can create money.

China is using an age-old policy common ever since Hammurabi and other Bronze Age rulers promoted economic resilience in the face of “acts of God.” Unless personal debts, rents and taxes that cannot be paid are annulled, the result will be widespread bankruptcy, impoverishment and homelessness. In contrast to America’s financialized economy, China has shown how natural it is for society simply to acknowledge that debts, rents, taxes and other carrying charges of living and doing business cannot resume until economic normalcy is able to resume.

What angers our oligarchs so much about China is that China can figure this out, but our oligarchs hate this solution because it works.

If we can’t take our blinders off to see the obvious, our downfall is nobody’s fault but our own.