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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
When you start out with the raisin bread all the raisins are close together.
Then as the bread rises and bakes, the raisins move appart as the dough expands.
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Except there's an "outside" that the bread expands into
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Originally Posted by Ziggy Lidstrom
Thus, Photon you are saying that at the time when all space, matter and energy were concentrated there was no catalytic explosion yet the start of a rapid expansion caused by the cooling of the once uniform energy fields?
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The other way around, I think the cooling happened because of the expansion.
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Originally Posted by Ziggy Lidstrom
So, is it safe to say that the bang wasn't a bang so much as it was hiss that usually sees the balloon is inflating? So, what would cause the inflation of the ballon? Is the catalyst suspected to be known?
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Everything was dense and so hot only energy existed, no matter.
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It proposes a period of extremely rapid (exponential) expansion of the universe prior to the more gradual Big Bang expansion, during which time the energy density of the universe was dominated by a cosmological constant-type of vacuum energy that later decayed to produce the matter and radiation that fill the universe today.
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http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_cosmo_infl.html