Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Brian Cox - What Was There Before The Big Bang?" video.

  1. Most of these religion myths only posit a single creation event, though.
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  2.  @jbbeiser983  But the science is pointing toward multiple big bangs.
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  3. 1:28 Inflation is a hypothesis to try to explain why the cosmic microwave background radiation isn’t lumpy enough. Inflation is built on two assumptions: * Something turned inflation on * Later on, something turned inflation off For the first assumption, we could say that the smoothness of the Universe itself is evidence that that happened. But as for the second assumption, there isn’t really any evidence for that. When and how did it turn off? The whole idea seems pretty arbitrary. But if inflation never turned off, then you end up with an infinite series of big bangs budding off other big bangs like yeast cells reproducing. An alternative explanation is that, instead of inflation, the Universe is smooth because it is older than the Big Bang. So, whichever way you look at it, the evidence seems to point quite clearly to the conclusion that the the Big Bang was not some once-off event.
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