Before the Big Bang

Dear Theclashfan,See my thread on Inflationary cosmology for what may have happened before the big bang.If inflatinary cosmology is correct our universe could have been produced from a lump of matter weighing a mere 20lbs. This matter (say a decaying black hole in another universe) then encounters, (by chance) an "inflaton" feild and expands extremely rapidly.The inflaton feild cuts out at the same time across the universe. But becase of quantum uncertanty it does not cut out at exsactly the same time. This explains why the matter in our universe is very uniformly distributed but not perfectly uniformly distributed.Now, granted infaltionary cosmology does not explain where this inital matter comes from or explain where the previous universe comes from. But it DOES explain a great deal about our universe.

You make it sound like there is a region of space where the big bang happened, when in fact the big bang happened everywhere at once. EVERY point in the universe is the point where the big bang banged and everything in the universe is moving away from that point.Our observations show that the universe is expanding, true. It seems like all the other galaxys are moving away from US at a faster and faster speed the farther away they are from us.But that is how it would look from ANY galaxy.You are going to confuse people if you aren't rigorus with your discriptions of these things.

Don't worry about it.Sorry if it seemed like I snapped at you.