Alternative Cosmology?

You may not be aware of it, but the best candidate currently to do what you are suggesting is M-Theory.M-theory - WikipediaThere have already been hints that the multi-membrane explanation for our so-far inability to detect the gravition will also neatly explain the misleadingly-named problem of "Dark Matter", as well as providing a better understanding of what conditions may have been like "before" Inflation.

LOL, I did marginalize it to "hint".But what I'm telling slevesque is really Wow, there's at least one prominent applicant for that job already. Sure, LQG is another, though not as awesome a one. There have been tons of alternative-to-the-big-bang-but-not-really hypotheses already, Inflation is the one that won so far and got to wear the official hat.I hope there's lots of ranting in this thread about how the alleged old paradigm has been reworked already, but I'm not going to put too much effort into it myself. 8 billion years? 10-15 billion years? Only 13 billion years? Whatever.It's not going to be 6014 years, count on that.