The Big Bang–An Alternative Theory

The discovery of the expansion of the universe led to the realization that by extrapolating back in time the universe becomes smaller and smaller and ultimately is reduced to an extremely small and dense entity, call it ‘S’ (singularity) composed of the compression of trillions of stars and many billions of galaxies. Presumably, all this matter was held together by the enormous force of gravity. However, somehow this enormous ‘S’ broke up and its contents were dispersed in all directions. The question is what brought about this break-up? Inflation theory does not provide an explanation but merely posits a theory that if we accept that the contents of ‘S’ expanded initially faster than the speed of light, this would be compatible with some other theories which themselves are not all universally accepted.