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What that means is that the two cannot have come into 'causal' contact within the life span of our universe, so how can the symmetry have formed? Basically, in order to account for an observation of the CMB, cosmologists had to include this rapid inflation period into the big bang in order to expla...

Sorry I have two 'stupid' question to ask :P , 1) is the color in the following pic of the Crab Nebula taken by the HST given by the radiation in the visible region from the Nebula or just the "false-color" given by the HST? http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2005/37/images/a/formats/1024_...

The point is that we cannot say that we are expanding into anything - the current inflation model suggests that 'our' universe is massively bigger than the 'visible' universe anyway. Hi Empeda, Thanks for your msg.. and I don't understand the inflation concept, could you explain it 'briefly'? and w...