[LibWhacker]

Hoo, boy... Okay, how big was this brane before it decomposed? As big, or nearly as big, as the present universe -- or are they sticking with the mathematical point beginnings of the universe and superluminal expansion? Why was the brane unstable? Exactly HOW did it ("it" presumably being pure "unstable" space but not matter) decompose into an innumerable bunch of tiny closed strings (i.e., actual matter), etc.? Not annoyed at this new theory. Just fascinated and awed at it all.

[No2much3]

Would someone explain where the Void came from for all of this to occur in. If our Universal space has no boundary then how can anything else outside our universe exist? If there are borders to our universe, what happens when we reach the limit. One last question. Does time differ on a Universe, Galaxy, Solar System if it is expanding or contracting.