Pow! Zap! (Big) Bang?! (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, September 25, 2010, 23:35 (5152 days ago) @ George Jelliss

Phew! I've only been gone one day and there are 25 new posts here!
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> A lot of what B-M says seems to be based on the idea of the "big bang" being like a normal explosion within an existing Euclidean/Newtonian space surrounding the point where the explosion occurs, but this is a complete misunderstanding of the theory, which is that the universe itself is expanding, creating space within itself as it goes (to put it in probably oversimplified terms). It is not matter expanding into pre-existing space.-I know it is not a normal explosion, but it is not exactly a membrane inflating itself either. Something had to trigger the expansion. That something would have had to start 'inside' the singularity. Otherwise you would have a implosion, or a pool ball effect, but NOT an expanding universe. If nothing existed 'outside' the singularity, there there would be nothing to resist the singularities expansion, which would lead to a sphere. In order to explain why it is not spherical then, you have to put the effect 'inside' the universe at the moment it began to expand. As gravity is a weak force, and all the gravity at the moment would have been pulling outwards, as that is were the most mass was, that leaves EM at the core due to plasma. At T>0, the EM field would have to be strong enough to attract all the newly expanding matter that was not instantaneously converted to plasma. We know such matter exists because we can see it in the CMBR. But, that would mean that nearly all matter was ionized, except that which escaped and makes up the CMBR, at the moment of expansion. Which brings me right back to the plasma model of the universe.