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To: Greg or e who wrote (67683)6/30/2015 6:40:50 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 69300
 
Universe created from nothing.
(read my previous post as there is no use repeating it)

I mentioned the simple idea of nothings being ripped apart into a big bang by the tremendous strong forces of dark energy (I never liked that name, but it is just a force that attracts spacetime rather than the things in spacetime which are attracted by gravity)

In order for the dark energy to be strong enough to create an event (big bang, white hole, whatever you want to call it) the spacetime must be very very devoid of matter since the mass of matter/energy counteracts the pull of the dark energy. That's why big bangs happen in areas which are far away from anything else in the meta-universe.

The bang-event flings matter into this empty wing of the meta-universe where it eventually does encounter the stuff in the meta-universe. At first there is none to virtually none and the universe expands is the "inflationary" phase, but as it begins to counter some resistance there is a kind of shock wave of the universe expanding into the meta universe. This shockwave is what we call a higgs field and provides a resistance to matter expansion which we experience as gravity.

Pretty neat stuff.