Recent content by shazdeh

Thanks for your help! Those analogies were awesome! To wrap my head around it, here's a question: if we could by any mean open a well deep to the heart of the earth, and if I'd jump into it, would I reach the center of the earth? Because, "the further you fall from the surface the more gravity...

Thank you for the answer! I read it again, and again, and again, and I didn't get it! :) I'm missing some points in here; there was space in singularity, wasn't it? Quoting SciAm June 2008, page 53, "at the time of inflation, our observable universe was less than a centimeter across." That's...

So, if our observable universe was less than a centimeter across, why didn't it collapse into a super black hole? The gravitational field of all that matter... inflation seems weird when you think that it could become into a big black hole (and it didn't; right?)