Scientists Accidentally Recreate Big Bang Detonation in the Lab

[jamesd at echeque.com]

On 2019-11-07 08:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
 >
 > The reason that last step is superstitious is that, assuming the
 > expanding balloon theory, there must be SOME galaxies somewhere that
 > don't have "galaxies further away from themselves" - i.e. from
 > -their- point of view, they would be near or indeed at, the very edge
 > of the actual (expanding balloon) universe.

You are talking of stuff you are incapable of understanding.  The two 
dimensional surface of a balloon has no edge, and the big bang has no edge.

It was not that everything was getting further away from some central 
point.  It was that everything was getting further away from everything.

At the hypothetical start of the big bang, everything was in one place, 
near enough, and there was no other place.  The very concept of 
dimensionality was ill defined since everything was close to everything 
else, there was no elsewhere.  You cannot even define the number of 
dimensions until some places are further away from other places.  There 
was no space as we understand space in ordinary daily life, and if there 
was time, not as we understand time.

The explosion was the three dimensions of space and the dimension of 
time coming into being, distance becoming large enough to be meaningful, 
so that it became possible for space and time to even have 
dimensionality, and then rapidly becoming enormous, so enormous that 
stuff that was once in the same place as us, there being no other place, 
indeed no places at all, is now so distant as to be outside our light 
cone, and likely to remain forever outside our light cone.