[Windflier]

According to Big Bang Inflation theory, the entire universe was once contained within a volume of space many billions of times smaller than the nucleus of a hydrogen atom.

I just heard that theory expressed on a science show the other night. Frankly, I can't (or don't want to) wrap my mind around something so weirdly counter-intuitive as that.

What makes more sense to me, is the alternate theory of successive Big Bangs, wherein the universe expands to a certain point, then contracts in a Big Implosion, which of course, sets off another Big Bang.

Sort of a birth-growth-decay-death / birth-growth-decay-death cycle, but on a cosmic scale. The Immortal Universe.

[JRandomFreeper]

I just heard that theory expressed on a science show the other night. Frankly, I can't (or don't want to) wrap my mind around something so weirdly counter-intuitive as that.

I followed that math as far as cooks are allowed to. I can't go further. I'm ok with counter-intuitive, but some math...

Hey! Want fries with that?

/johnny

[ETL]

What makes more sense to me, is the alternate theory of successive Big Bangs, wherein the universe expands to a certain point, then contracts in a Big Implosion, which of course, sets off another Big Bang.

But the current evidence points to a universe that is *accelerating* in its expansion. Before that, it was believed the universe was expanding at a progressively slower rate --that it would go on decelerating forever, yet never collapse. Who knows.