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Black Holes, Gravity, and the Creation [duplicate]

As I suppose we all accept, the universe started as an unintuitive singularity—either, "Let there be light," or "The Big Bang". Something from nothing expanded and at luminal ...
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Right after the Big Bang, how did particles overcome extreme gravity and other forces and manage to fly apart?

I have read this question: Why did the universe not collapse to a black hole shortly after the big bang? where Lubos Motl says: This matter has no center - it is almost uniform throughout space - and ...
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Is gravity active in the very early universe before matter exists?

Since gravity separates very early, and takes it's present form by 1 Plank time, does it act on the energy in the very early universe (e.g., during the Grand Unification Epoch) as it does on ...
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Does space expansion increase potential energy, and hence increase mass?

As space expands the gravitational potential Energy increases. So does the potential energy between Atoms and quarks and so on. I have read several times that these effects are so minuscule that they ...
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If the Big Bang theory is true, what caused it to explode?

According to the Big Bang theory, all the matter in the universe was amassed together at one single point. If this was the case, why was it able to explode? The density of the mass would create a ...
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