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I’ve been thinking about the Big Bang not as a single explosion, but as the beginning of a self-propagating matter-antimatter annihilation wave — where energy from the first explosion creates matter again, which continues reacting with antimatter, causing the expansion of space to still be part of the original chain reaction.
Is this idea fundamentally flawed, or does it overlap with any existing speculative models?
 
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The big bang wasn't an explosion. The physics of the big bang is well understood. See An Introduction to Modern Cosmology by
Andrew Liddle, for example.

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parth said:
Is this idea fundamentally flawed, or does it overlap with any existing speculative models?
It's fundamentally flawed, as such a model doesn't match our observations about the current and past state of the universe. As PeroK said, take a deeper look into what we know about the BBT and how we know it and you'll see why we model the big bang the way we do.

Thread locked, since personal theories and speculation of this nature are not allowed here at PF. If you'd like to make a new thread in the cosmology forum asking about the Big Bang Theory as it is understood by mainstream cosmology, please feel free to do so.