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Old 11-January-2009, 02:35 AM
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I dont believe in that one ... what I meant was if all of the mass was contained in one microscopic singularity .... and there was a universe that was filled with these microscopic singularities .... basically our universe x a gazillion.
Our current state of physics can not define what the pre-BB state looked like. It breaks down at the pre-Planck-time. The standard BB model entails one universe only.

However, when you start talking about multiple universes, etc. , this would be more in the realm of string theory. Here with n-branes, all this is possible. One of these cosmologies, the Ekpyrotic model, postulates the collision of two n-branes causing the BB. Here we have a pre-existing universe into which at the area of the brane collison, the BB occurs.

However, it is all mathematical theory at the moment.