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[Hasanuddin]

Good Morning Stereologist,

Big Bang. This is a philosophical question that you begin with. Essentially it boils down to a question of when do you start the clock. At "E" or at "mc2?" Personally I like to start the clock at the point once material has been created. At that point, we know categorically that equal amounts of matter/antimatter, charge, etc were created.

"Radiation" Before the creation of mass/change you infer that there was only radiation. I'd disagree. "Energy," yes, though it is difficult to pin down the exact form that energy took. It is impossible to categorical assert that it took one form or another without making unsubstantiated assumptions. Photonic radiation did not occur for approximately one hundred thousand Earth-years after the Big Bang... is my understanding of best estimates of CMB.

Inverse-square. You ask a very interesting question. I concur; it does not categorically follow that at extremely close distances inverse-square still applies. I posited that early on in this thread because to say that the inverse-square relationship of Newton's well-known equation still holds is much less controversial than saying what I actually believe. I believe that at extremely close distances gravitational interactions have a ballooning effect, similar to what has been observed in the electric repulsion of like charges where proportional relationships have been observed to balloon to (F∝1/d7)* and even more sever. I held back, because using existing understanding still yields the same deductive conclusions.

*PS: The ballooned relationship I meant to write is "force inversely proportional to distance to the 7th" Could someone PM me to tell me how to code for superscript on this forum?