Initially there was nothing! No universe, no time, no space, absolutely nothing. I mean really nothing. To have an idea of what 'really nothing' means let me take you through a little scenario.
Imagine a sentence on a sheet of paper. Rub it out. That's one view of 'nothing'. Now crumple up the paper and burn it. Destroy the ashes; the space they occupied and the space around that space. Now destroy every particle in the universe in a similar fashion. Now we are getting closer to understanding 'nothing'.
Now try to destroy even the concept of nothing. This may give you a glimpse of the nothingness of nothing. Remember - there being nothing in this scenario there was not even a God to "start things off".
Science has for a long time now accepted the fact that particles can spontaneously 'Popp' into existence. They do this from the energies in what they call the 'ZERO POINT FIELD' (Don't ask what this is because it really doesn't matter at all.) Once created these 'bits' of positive matter are immediately annihilated by a cloud of smaller negative particles coming in from every direction being in total equal to the volume to the particle that 'popped' into existence originally.
So it appears that nothing can be created and sustained in the form of the universe that we know of today! We exist and so does the universe, that's a fact! - so what really happened?
At this point I would like to take you to the core of the whole idea behind the logic of the new theory.
Dear reader - the core of NEW THEORY is critical and it should evoke an AHH...HAA moment for you. It should not be 'scan-read' as you could miss the point completely!!
THE VERY FIRST PARTICLE THAT SPONTANEOUSLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE WAS INFINITELY SMALL. Remember, if a particle sprang into existence that was larger than infinitely small then it would have been immediately annhilated by a cloud of smaller particles. BUT being infinitely small - the cloud of particles that came to annihilate the original particle had to be all the same size as the original particle. i.e. infinitely small. Remember being infinitely small the 12 particles could not be any smaller
DID YOU GET THAT?
That was ahh - haa point that I mentioned before. Please feel free to go over it again in case I have not put the point over clearly or emphatically enough! You should realise that this is the creative process and is making surplus material of one kind or other at each stage. Immediately after that point a further cloud of about 28 positive particles came into existence to try to annhilate them. At each stage of the action and reaction a surplus of particles is created.
After a while the whole universe became filled by this event until it became infinitely large and could not expand any further. That's when the whole ediface collapsed with positive and negative particles cancelling each other out.
But, as you will remember, there was always a surplus of positive particles at each stage as the 'cloud' formed.When the final collapse took place there remained, of course, a balance of positive particles left. No further annhilation reaction took place to these particles as they were changed slightly in the collapse.
The quantity of particles left is calculable and MATCHES EXACTLY THE NUMBER OF PARTICLES FOUND IN THE UNIVERSE TODAY! - i.e. 1080
After the annhilation was over the remnant forces which remained were the strong and weak atomic forces, electromagnetic forces and, of course, gravity. So all these forces are simply the weaker cousins of the origiinal primordal annhilation force. This is where all the observable forces remaining originated. They are all unified there. But the original annihilation force being spent in the initial colapse is no longer is observable.
As they are all related to the original annhilation force grouping the strong and weak atomic; electromagnetic and gravitational forces together makes for a unifying theory dead easy.
This initial collapse probably totalled in diameter at least a billion light years across. Then occurred a massive 'bounce-back' which became known as the 'BIG-BANG'. The compression in the collapse and subsequent ''Bounce-Back' allowed material to coalesce and form the galaxies.
An embarrasing aspect of the current 'Big-Bang' theory is that every particle in the universe is flying away from every other particle in the 'big-bang' explosion. SO THEN - DOES THIS NOT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR GALAXIES TO FORM! You must ask yourself - if there was a big bang where the force was that of a powerful cataclysmic explosion how on earth can any particle be attracted to any other particle by the relatively week force of gravity at all?
Current theory is that the big-bang occured when all the material in the universe was compacted into a volume the size of a pea! This now appears not to stand close scruntiny any more.