Big Bang an Illusion (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, September 13, 2013, 22:30 (4089 days ago) @ George Jelliss

According to this latest theory the Big Bang is just an illusion
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> http://www.nature.com/news/did-a-hyper-black-hole-spawn-the-universe-1.13743
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> It's the result of a collapsing 4-dimensional star! 
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> I suppose this is analogous to a sphere intersecting a plane and appearing to be a point expanding into a circle. Shades of Abbott's Flatland!
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> This gets rid of the need for inflation, which seems good to me, 
> but on the other hand introduces an even more improbable scenario. 
> First indications are it needs further refinement.-But all the CMB findings support inflation with very close predictions. Ev erything we find supports inflation, weird as that seems. How do you prove a universe in a membrane? Talk about counerintuative.