[ExI] Four pieces of evidence from before the Big Bang

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting  John Clark:

> If the idea is right then inflation IS the Big Bang. According to the
> theory all you need to do to get things going and create a new universe is
> to concentrate 10 grams of matter (about the mass of a pencil) into a
> volume with a diameter of 10^-26 meters; by comparison a proton has a
> diameter of 10^-15 meters and the Planck Length is 1.6*10^-35 meters. As
> far as I know there is no specific name for this.

That is kind of an odd figure. The Schwarzchild radius for 10 grams is  
approximately 1.5*10^-29 meters. So does this mean that every  
collapsing star creates a new universe on the way to becoming a black  
hole? Or does it have to be a very small amount of matter like   
literally 10 grams or close to it?

Stuart LaForge