[xelasnave]

Now I know you scientists must wring your hands when I question the big bang (or current gravity thinkingno doubt, oh and time dialation) but where it (the big bang) came apart for me, and I have sort help with this once before I saw the following, was the inflation (aspect recently introduced) to hold the picture together.
"During this growth spurt, a tiny region, likely no larger than a marble, grew in a trillionth of a second to become larger than the visible universe," said WMAP researcher David Spergel, also from Princeton University.

Is this not difficult to get ones head around. From a marble to larger than the visable Universe (not the observable Universe) in a trillionth of a second?
Mind you I have no idea what size one could rate the visable Universe, maybe that is with the unaided eye..but I doubt he meant that. Growing from a marble to the size of the Sun in a trillionth of a second is beyond my grasp so the scale suggested simply leaves me wringing my hands.
Put me straight here are we talking about a "real split second" or "one" that if looked at it from the other size of the Universe is really 5 billion years? What magic could possibly explain this part of the theory. The background radiation map ties down the time pretty well so a conclusion such as this is almost "needed" but it seems some how "artificial".
Who is up to this one?
alex