It is difficult to have a go without knowing all "they" know they being those who presumably know
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Inflation I find a big stretch to get the Big Bang to work
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Consider we start at a point which inflates at a rate that finally in a very short span of time becomes infinite, even with a finite restriction on the use of the word infinite there be a lot that we must accept did take place, and we are still inflating or in the current stage ..expanding. Expanding into what??? AND indeed I can understand why the Pope would enjoy the big bang approach..Steven says 13 billion years the Pope say seven days.. To me the approaches are similar and both certainly draw out focus to a point in time we must ask the untimate question in our heart
. I think that the Universe is likely not to have a start, a finish,,. tops bottoms or sides and if there was a big bang it was simply a local matter and created that part we think of as our Universe. It was probably a bang in a already exsisting Universe. It could be a human thing that we cant accept a situation without a start or finish or unless we find a seed at the start ..that is our experience but maybe our experience has not prepared us for what must be contemplated when considering the Universe
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