Singularity Quiz

I've written a lot about this, but I'm still fascinated by what happened at the time of the Big Bang.

The Big Bang started out as a very hot ball of energy millions of times smaller than an atom. How could this much energy, energy enough to create all of the matter that's in our universe, be condensed down to that small of size?
The answer could be that space and time were also compressed and Einstein's theories about space and time didn't come into existence right away. The reason that cosmologists believe that this compression idea is possible is because after only a few nanoseconds this tiny ball of energy came into existence, it inflated at many more times the speed of light in what's caused the inflation period. This period of rapid inflation only lasted for 10 to the -32 seconds. This is so fast that it would be incomprehensible. However, this inflation event super cooled the energy by a factor of 100,000 and set the stage for the condensation of energy into matter, the stuff we're made of.

Energy had to have condensed into quantum particles, which subsequently formed atoms of hydrogen and helium, the two main chemicals that made star formation possible. The other main event that occurred then was the split of the original singular force into the four main forces of physics, including electromagnetic, the two nuclear forces, and gravity. If these forces had not separated, the universe would not have formed as it is today.

During the early universe after the Big Bang inflation period only hydrogen and helium gas existed. Eventually, as the universe began to cool even more, hydrogen condensed into massive stars that burned fast and exploded in supernovae to form the higher chemical elements that we are made out of.

The proof for this is in the cosmic background microwave map of the universe. As it turns out we owe our very existence to this inflation period because it distributed matter evenly throughout the universe. If that hadn't happen the universe would have collapsed without forming stars. Star formation was necessary for our eventual existence.

Actually, the ultimate proof for the inflation theory is being obtained from a telescope in Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope, which is hunting for elusive evidence for inflation by trying to detect the residual gravity waves from this event.

This still doesn't answer the question of how one could stuff that much energy into a tiny ball millions of times smaller than an atom. What we're talking about here is a tiny point where gravity is infinite. I've already ranted about how infinity is a concept beyond understanding.

There is a distinct possibility that a singularity does not exist. What we call a singularity is something that defies current physics. Maybe what we're seeing is that a singularity is simply another higher dimension where the laws of physics that we know don't apply. Higher dimensions are essentially space folded over into complex structures that we can't see or understand. They are incredibly tiny, so small that conventional math doesn't apply.

Particle physicists are looking for a new particle that would explain the Big Bang. What if it isn't a particle but instead a new energy state that involves waves only. Waves could have very high frequencies, higher than anything we know about. They are beyond our current knowledge.

Hopefully, this dilemma in science will be resolved.

Thanks for reading.