Expansion: Big Bang or Stretching? 2
Comparison of Two Explanations for Expansion of the Universe
The universe was once much smaller. It began soon after time began and
before the laws of physics came into operation (2). Energy and matter
appeared out of nothing.
[Big Bang Yes]
[Stretching Yes]
Expansion began at almost a mathematical point.
[Big Bang Yes (3)]
[Stretching No]
Expansion energy came from within the universe.
[Big Bang Yes]
[Stretching No]
The initial temperature and density of matter was:
[Big Bang nearly infinite]
[Stretching finite]
The expansion:
[Big Bang continues today]
[Stretching was a brief event]
All expansion energy was expended:
[Big Bang within a tiny fraction (10^34) of a second]
[Stretching as the expansion proceeded]
Stars, galaxies, and black holes began forming:
[Big Bang after hundreds of millions of years, in an expanded
universe]
[Stretching before the expansion]
2. Andrei Linde, =93The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe,=94
Scientific American, Vol. 271, November 1994, p. 48.
3. =93According to inflationary cosmology, the universe [began] growing
from a patch as small as 10-26 m, one hundred billion times smaller
than a proton, ...=94 Alan H. Guth and David I. Kaiser, =93Inflationary
Cosmology: Exploring the Universe from the Smallest to the Largest
Scales,=94 Science, Vol. 307, 11 February 2005, p. 885.
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