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Forget the Big Bang: Gravitational waves may have really created the Universe
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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Ooh, I like this idea! I've always found physics (espeicsly cosmology) to have a few too many handwaves around some pretty odd ideas. Renormalization for one. The rapid inflationary model for another. It's just a silly suggestion. "The big bang happened, but then the universe expanded super fast for no reason before it slowed way down also for no reason. Inflatons maybe?"
An emergent model based in interactions of known forces would seen much more sensible to me.
i don't understand how super fast expansion following the big bang can be described as "for no reason"
(I'm not a physicist) I think the rapid inflation proposed didn't begin at the instant of the big bang but a little later