MLM and 'the big bang'

The matter we see seems to go back to a point in space and time that is called "the big bang."

However there is no reason to assume that "the matter we see" is all there is.

I think that we should assume the big bang produced our "neighborhood" within an infinite universe -- and that there are many "big bangs" coming and going, and many other phenomena that are outside our current scope.

After all, the big bang had to come from something, and emerge in the context of something else. It is just a little bubble of expanding matter popping up in a much larger (infinite) sea of "matter in motion."

There is a fascinating MLM article on this by revolutionaries written during the cultural revolution. I have seen it in print, but not online unfortunately.

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Just to clarify:

I don't oppose the big bang, and i don't think MLM in general does.

The evidence suggests that the matter we see (our local part of the universe) emerged rapidly from a very small space about 15 billion years ago. That evidence includes the "red shift" of current galaxies (showing that they are moving apart) and the record of background microwave radiation from the early days of the big bang.

In other words, I believe there is evidence of a big bang.

I don't think there is any evidence that "this is all there is" or that "everything started from nothing."

And claims to explains how "everything can start from nothing" are not scientific. There is not a relatively simple explanation in quantum physics that documents or explains that such a thing is possible.

Matter (all matter we have ever seen) changes form -- and the range of "forms of matter" is rather dramatic. The atomic and particle structures of "our" world is only one narrow spectrum of the forms of matter that are possible (and that have existed.)

Two points:

1) The existence of a big bang does not prove that there isn't an infinite universe of which this "big bang neighborhood" is a small part.

2) There is no reason to believe that the kernel that became the big bang did not have a history, was not formed by previous processes.