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If so, what are they?

All right, thank you both! I deeply appreciate your explanations.

I appreciate your answers, but they were not answers I was hoping for; that's really my fault for wording it badly. What I really want to know is if there really was a "bang" at all that contributed to the universe exisiting. The only reason I ask is because they say the Big Bang was a huge...

Was it inflation that started off the universe to exist, or was it the Big Bang? The reason I ask is because from I've read is that the universe wasn't an explosion, but rather a rapid expansion. Was there a small explosion we call the big bang, then the cosmological inflation? Or was there...