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Old 30-01-2018, 12:12 PM
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I must say that when I realise that I cant comprehend the vastness I then find that I can not accept that the big bang could be a realistic model of reality.

Certainly I may not understand exactly what the big bang models but my limited understanding has it that at a point slightly after the point in time we can call the start the Universe was infinetly dense (a term I cant get my head around) and infinitely hot...probably already I have something wrong but to proceed upon my limited understanding...this infinetly dense universe then, according to the theory of inflation grew at such a rate that it grew from the size of a basket ball to at least the size of the observable universe in less than, as Degrasse puts it..in less than a zillionth of a zillionth of a zillonth of a second ...
I guess because I cant get my head around inflation and what it asks us to believe I mentally reject that such a thing could happen.

But then when I think of how big the universe appears to be and realise any grasp will be less than it really is, at that point I then ask how could everything ever fit into the small space the model seems to suggest.
I just dont see how the model could be reality.
But clearly science seems content that the model is somewhat perfect.
Even with its problems, which I am uncertain as to what they really are, the steady state model just seems more credible.
I often feel uncomfortable that the big bang came from a priest who I think first proposed that the Universe started as a cosmic egg...and although the priest was a scientist I cant help but feel his faith and its need for a point of creation in part guided the development of the model.

It seems that to question the big bang model is a sure way to be labled a nut job but really I cant accept inflation or that everything once was apparently confined to a region less than the size of an atom...And although the big bang model does not address what was before it seems speculation is happy with the universe being created from nothing which I also find more worrying than a universe that had always existed.
Is it really wrong to question if the big bang model is realistic?
Alex
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