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Thread #123911   Message #2737962
Posted By: Ed T
04-Oct-09 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: What went Big Bang?
Subject: RE: BS: What went Big Bang?
A lot about the Big Bang is speculation, and evolving different theories.   My understanding, from what I have read,   is many theories speculate that a black hole and the big bang are/ were much different. The Big Bang is thought to have been a singularity extending through all space at a single instant (more like a white hole, if they exist). A black hole is a singularity extending through all time at a single point. With the Big bang, the space near the singularity is flat rather than being tightly curved with a black hole.

I don't believe researchers figured out what happens to the entropy of matter falling into a black hole, which involves quantum mechanics and strong gravity.