No one is trying to distort anything
Bull. Sylas explained, in detail and quite adequately, exactly how you distorted his meaning by quoting him out of context. Just to make it even more clear, from the message in the older thread:
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The notion of "size" refers not to a speck, or particle, but to a region of space. It refers to the region of space from which everything we can see derives. Furthermore, as has been explained, there is no well defined size for that region in general. The size depends on the time of asking.
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But in relativity, distance and space get a bit more tricky. The effect of the expansion of space is that the region from which those photons might have come is much smaller. Even more strange is that as you approach the singularity, the size of this subspace shrinks without limit. There is a time when it was the size of a basketball, and the size of a pea, and the size of an atom.
Clearly "it" in the quote you extracted refers to a
portion of the universe, the portion that we see now as the observable universe, and not the universe itself. Sylas
never said that the universe was ever as big as a basketball, pea. or atom.
You are dishonest, you tried to distort Sylas' meaning, and you got caught.