A remedial question before answering how to fold space without physical distortion…when the Big Bang occurred did it shoot matter primarily in one direction or did it shoot in all directions?
“The hard swallow built into science is this business about the big bang…
This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant… notice that this is the limit test for credulity.
Whether you believe this or not, notice that it is not possible to conceive of something more unlikely, or less likely to be believed.
I defy anyone. It’s just the limit case for unlikelihood: that the universe would spring from nothing in a single instant for no reason… ”
-Terence McKenna
I would say all directions instantaneously within a planck time it was done. This was complete with far distant galaxies light reaching us instantaneously (when it should have taken millennium). And on top of all of that, we are living in a computer simulation.
There was no ‘direction’, space just expanded rapidly.............