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benneyben t1_j6togc8 wrote

Why does the microscopic singularity theory exist with the Big Bang. Isn’t it possible that the Big Bang started with a gigantic, infinitely dense chunk?

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nivlark t1_j6uciyt wrote

It does. Any finitely-sized region of the universe today shrinks toward zero volume as you approach the Big Bang, but the universe as a whole can still be large, even infinitely so, at the moment of the Big Bang.

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