Qualifies· moderateCCC-E016
Tod 2022: the sympathetic open-problems inventory
- what the source states
- Tod's question list for CCC includes: "Can one implement mass fade-out? (Massless charged particles are usually regarded as problematical.)" — and, on the perturbation spectrum, whether one can "make sense of the statement inflation happens before the Bang, in the previous aeon? And if so, can one then derive the familiar spectrum of density perturbations?" The note also reviews Penrose's "delayed rest mass hypothesis" and alternative choices for fixing the conformal factor.
- what we infer
- Qualifies the mechanism rung from the friendliest competent quarter: the relativist who built CCC's mathematical machinery treats mass fade-out and the perturbation spectrum as open problems, not solved ones. This is the honest midpoint between proponent confidence and dismissal.
- limitations
- An unrefereed talk write-up, though by the field's central technical contributor.