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Old 04-March-2007, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by mugaliens View Post
The largest question that comes to my mind, and really seems to sink the entire theory, is that if pure energy actually had a gravitational component, wouldn't the Big Bang simply have gone "thud," as the gravitation component would have been strong enough to hold in everything, including light (energy)?
I do not believe that pure energy has been defined. The BBT is a theory and as such it does leave many unanswered questions, but it is the best thing going to date as far as nucleosynthesis.

Perhaps if there were a pure energy and it did have gravity it was homogenous with 0 gradiant. Once the energy began to "clump" a gradiant was formed that forces the "pure energy" zero gradiant away from the clumps and generates dark energy. Or perhaps it is a new physics we do not yet understand.

BTW, I am not an astrophysicist, though I love the science...not so much the math.
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