[medved]

I claim nobody needs to be Albert Einstein to figure this one out. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How the hell is anything supposed to "big-bang" its way out of that??

[Dog Gone]

I claim nobody needs to be Albert Einstein to figure this one out. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How the hell is anything supposed to "big-bang" its way out of that??

Yeah! And the Earth is flat. Any moron can see that.

When you discover that there are some truths that aren't intuitive, you will be a wiser man.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes.

Now it might have been a gravastar.

[BikerNYC]

Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How the hell is anything supposed to "big-bang" its way out of that??

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Professor Hawking establish, mathematically at least, that black holes are not as black as once thought and that they eventually evaporate with a climactic exposion at the evaporation's conclusion?

Moreover, I don't know if you can compare a black hole sitting within space with an infinitesimally small universe containing all the matter of the universe in all the space. When the entire universe gets very small and very young, there is no way to determine how much energy it has because of how uncertainty principles work (I think).

The interesting question, of course, is how laws of physics came to be so as to permit inflation or a Big Bang or quantum fluxuations, which goes hand in hand with the fundamental question of how did conditions come to be so as to permit the existence of a Supreme Being (if there is one) at all?

Why something rather than nothing (I've often thought that neither would exist without the other -- that there must be something against which to define nothing, but that answer is not very satisfying and kind of misses the point of the question); why God rather than no God?