Big Bang an Illusion (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, September 13, 2013, 22:30 (4685 days ago) @ George Jelliss

According to this latest theory the Big Bang is just an illusion > > http://www.nature.com/news/did-a-hyper-black-hole-spawn-the-universe-1.13743 > > It's the result of a collapsing 4-dimensional star! > > I suppose this is analogous to a sphere intersecting a plane and appearing to be a point expanding into a circle. Shades of Abbott's Flatland! > > This gets rid of the need for inflation, which seems good to me, > but on the other hand introduces an even more improbable scenario. > First indications are it needs further refinement.-But all the CMB findings support inflation with very close predictions. Ev erything we find supports inflation, weird as that seems. How do you prove a universe in a membrane? Talk about counerintuative.