Can Small Bangs Create Mini Universes?

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The discussion explores the misconception that small bangs, like explosions, could create mini universes. It clarifies that the Big Bang was not an explosion but rather a unique event where spacetime itself began to expand from a gravitational singularity. Unlike typical explosions, which disperse particles outward, the Big Bang involved the expansion of space between points. The term "Big Bang" is misleading, as it was originally coined in a derisive context and does not accurately represent the phenomenon. Overall, the conversation emphasizes the distinct nature of the Big Bang compared to other explosive events.
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I am not a physicist or science person at all and my education after high school has been in arts, so excuse me if it is a stupid question:

If universe exists in its shape as we know because of big bang, then is it possible that in all events of bangs, no matters how small they are like bomb blast or even lighting a match stick, there is a nano scale of universe created and ended in nano seconds? If not, then why? After all all bangs should follow the same laws of physics.
 
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In other words, the "bang" in "Big Bang" is not actually anything like a bang, and just a colourful, if rather misleading, way of describing a rather unique and complex process.
It's no more an explosion than the "evening star" is an actual star or a black hole an actual hole.
 
The big bang was not an explosion at all, it was a gravitational singularity, the name is frequently deceptive, and the prevalent TV programs that numerous individuals watch surely don't help by delineating it as some white spot in space that exploded into an universe. The big bang did not happen at a particular point, it happened everywhere, there is no space outside of the universe that it is expanding into.

In a real explosion, particles fly outward from the source of the explosion, where as in the case of the big bang the space between any two points itself is literally expanding,

The singularity is when the (scalar) curvature of space-time diverges to infinity, and geodesics/world-lines end abruptly.
 
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If universe exists in its shape as we know because of big bang, then is it possible that in all events of bangs ...
The term "big bang" was invented as a totally derisory term used to describe a phenomenon which the inventor did not believe in, but which turned out to be reality (although NOT a "bang" as has already been pointed out) despite his disbelief. Another good example of how the universe really doesn't care what we think, it just does what it does.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombination_(cosmology) Was a matter density right after the decoupling low enough to consider the vacuum as the actual vacuum, and not the medium through which the light propagates with the speed lower than ##({\epsilon_0\mu_0})^{-1/2}##? I'm asking this in context of the calculation of the observable universe radius, where the time integral of the inverse of the scale factor is multiplied by the constant speed of light ##c##.
Why was the Hubble constant assumed to be decreasing and slowing down (decelerating) the expansion rate of the Universe, while at the same time Dark Energy is presumably accelerating the expansion? And to thicken the plot. recent news from NASA indicates that the Hubble constant is now increasing. Can you clarify this enigma? Also., if the Hubble constant eventually decreases, why is there a lower limit to its value?

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