Big-Bang... if one imagines object in the universe running away because of an "explosion" there's no way to account for accelerated rate of expansion, uniform cosmic background radiation; and who knows what else. The problem is "big-bang" focuses on things within the universe as opposed to the fabric/construct of space itself.

From my understanding, Inflation solves this by focusing on space as opposed to the objects within. The big x factor then seems to be what is the energy causing the accelerated rate of expansion. "dark" energy. We know nothing about it so we call it dark, I think. If there is an "energy" causing a universal expansion, that sounds pretty complex... I've never heard even a speculative explanation as to how "dark" energy can interact with space to make it expand


I'm a total layman so bear with me for a moment... but if it's simple enough for me to have a mental image

Perhaps energy reacts with the fabric of spacetime causing that fabric to vibrate or resonate with effect of quarks and things phasing or spinning in and out of our observable existence... all that quantum quirkiness. Maybe that smallest/ most basic of energy's interaction with the fabric of space-time is energy causing a resonation or vibration on the space-time fabric resulting in wave/particles... Perhaps this happens on threads in the fabric of space-time that are the "alpha-fine" in size. If this exchange of energy and particle/wave causes a split or potential split in a "thread" of the fabric of space-time causing 2 smaller threads in the fabric where there once was one, this would cause everything in proportion to "shrink". Energy then continues to react with space-time's fabric, but the fabric of space "resonates" at a lower "amplitude" and "frequency" causing all particles/waves to be smaller and move slower relative to the overall size of the universe since those "Alpha-fine" threads of the fabric of space-time are now smaller relative to the universe.

edit: meant fabric of space-time resonates at lower amplitude/higher frequency, resulting in a proportionally smaller quantum interaction with space-time fabric for all wave/ particles.

We don't have the special right to say that the universe is expanding and we're spatially constant any more than we have the right to claim to be the center of the universe compared to another, or that our time is "true" time. The "non-special" law would probably trump the "simplicity" law, but since there is no difference in complexity it's not even necessary-
only the speculation as to what is constant has changed: the size of the universe, or the size of it's contents... Occam's Razor doesn't apply or might even favor a constant size when the 4th dimensional ("dark") energy interaction with the shape and fabric of space is considered.

If there is anything simpler that can explain how "dark" energy might cause the universe's expansion to accelerate, and how the big bang can result in objects moving faster than the speed of light relative to one another, and the uniform cosmic background radiation, I'm more than willing to go where pointed to find the info... I'm just trying to get a more accurate view in my head and simply don't have any emotional connection to the big bang... Inflation/ shrinkage are identical but assume different constants. The shrinking might give people a more accurate picture simply because it won't be confused with ideas from the big-bang that are no longer in line with what we can now observe.