The universe was without form, and void. Inflation then filled it with an almost completely uniform brew of radiation.
Either the author is proposing that the big bang occurred as a (relatively) smaller event in a preexistent universe, or he has been carried away by his own rhetoric.
Either the author is proposing that the big bang occurred as a (relatively) smaller event in a preexistent universe, or he has been carried away by his own rhetoric.
I think it's both with an amusing emphasis on the latter.
43 posted on 08/31/2005 9:46:16 AM PDT by delacoert