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Originally Posted by Cougar
That's what I'm saying. A tiny, tiny volume of (barely) energetic space is being added at every point in space throughout the universe. It's like it's coming out of another "dimension," and it can certainly be modeled as such, but I think it's as likely that it is just a quality of the space we inhabit, still "hot" after the goings on in the very early universe.
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One of my college physics professors was actually an astrophysicist. He used to say pretty much the same thing.
He also told us that every so often in any given volume of space, a quark or a lepton would either pop into, or pop out of existance. He went on about this phenomenon for about five minutes, so I'm sure I heard him correctly.
If that's the case, and more are popping in than popping out, perhaps there wasn't actually a Big Bang and that the observed expansion of space might be explained by this...
I've always wondered why, if there was a Big Bang, all that mass together in a very small volume, it didn't just go FOOMP into the mother of all black holes.
Perhaps this might explain that.