Thanks for the detailed assessment. However some questions still linger in my mind. What caused the matter / energy to come into a singularity?? Why did it 'explode'?? What was the matter / energy that formed the sigularity?? Was it some earlier version of any space time???
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Originally Posted by Lloyd Gillespie  IMO, Turok's theory does not stand. As far as multiverse, the devil is in the definitions. If by multiverse you mean, as Tom Manz has described it, universe means from big bang forward, and multiverse means this universe plus what existed before this universe, then I accept his definition. If you mean multiple universes of the big-bang type, then no. IMO, only one completed cycle universe is possible, because of our universes need for such a large expansion radius, 10^137 years of matter, radiation and light, that our universe would never be affected by any possibility of other such universes, so, since there is no evidence possible, I ignore such speculations. As to baby universes sprouting from our universe, I would say show me the evidence___there is none. Although, we do witness past galaxie and star birth through the Hubble Telescope, they are far distant in our past, and likely burned out before our planet was even formed. These observations are 8 to 10 billion years old. Time has erased the initial births, completely, I would have to say. As far as Galaxies and stars still forming, the evidence is still being interpreted. A cosmologist named Hardison, I belive, that I read in the `80's was the best information I ever came across on these questions. He viewed it all through the light cones ability of expansion over time___I think his and Hawking's are the best assessments. I don't know where his book or information can be found, though he was quite profound at basic grounded logic of universal realities.
Regards,
Lloyd |