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Fascinating - thank you for your help. Some reading for me to do - and I may be back with some further questions.

Right. So in effect, we have a very hot, ultra-dense soup which suddenly coalesces into cosmic scale matter everywhere? (or on different time scales according to different theories) rather than a big explosion per se (the expression big bang would appear to be a little misleading).

Hmmm - a fundamental misunderstanding on my part clearly. So when physicists talk about inflation, do they mean the universe simultaneously inflating at all points, everywhere?

All - my first post, and as a lay person interested in quantum physics, forgive me if my questions are naive or ill-informed. Is it possible that the Universe inflated then exploded into being from a singularity smaller than Planck length? If I understand the concepts properly, the Planck...