What is the Universe expanding into..

Do you think there was anything before the big bang?

  • I don't think there was anything before the Big Bang

    Votes: 56 12.5%
  • I think something existed before the Big Bang

    Votes: 200 44.7%
  • I don't think the big bang happened

    Votes: 54 12.1%
  • I think the universe is part of a mutiverse

    Votes: 201 45.0%

  • Total voters
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Apparently the amount of dark matter is increasing according to an article I read just this morning. Same effect as too much food over Xmas - expansion is unavoidable.

Dark matter materializing from nothingness, or micro bubble foam, is no more incredible than a big bang exploding from nothingness, I guess.
Perhaps our state of matter is a degenerate form of dark matter, and no longer has the makeup to perceive or interact with it, aside from gravity.
I eat like a pro at Christmas : elastic stretch waistband pants.
They look solid, but are stretchy.
Maybe space time is stretchy pants, to accommodate a steady state like influx of new matter and energy. 🤣
 
the explanation was in the link that you asked for
Let me rephrase my response - I saw no valid explanation.

He says "This leaves the world's brightest minds still searching for answers to this basic question. Is matter a particle or a wave?"

Obviously he hasn't heard of Schrödinger's wave equation! Now that's an example of real science!
 

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Dark matter materializing from nothingness...
We tend to think of dark matter as some kind of modern invention, but evidence for its existence extends back as far as 1933 when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky noticed something odd about the Coma cluster of galaxies. The stars on the edges of the cluster were revolving much faster than could be explained by his estimate of the mass of visible matter in the cluster. He calculated that there was about four hundred times more mass in the Corona cluster than could be accounted for.

In 1939, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort showed that the distribution of mass in a certain elliptical galaxy differed from the distribution of the light emited by the visible matter within the galaxy.

Neither of these observations was taken seriously till 1970 when American astronomer Vera Rubin mapped out the rotational velocities of the stars in the Andromeda galaxy and found that the outer stars were moving so fast that they should be flying off into intergalactic space. The only explanation was that the stars were being held in place by the gravitational influence of invisible matter. Remembering Vera Rubin | American Institute of Physics

It wasn't until 1980 that the the first scientific meeting on the subject of dark matter was held when Ruben proclaimed that we would know what dark matter was within a decade.

Today, we still don't know what it is, but we know it must be there!
 

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