I've seen a documentary called 'the elegant universe' and it talked about string theory. I agree it's a great thing to learn about and so abstract that it's hard to understand at some points. But I was wondering if there is a book by the same title too. Was that what you were talking about?

And you're mostly right about all of matter in that small of an area, but there was no time 'right before the big bang'. there was nothing, and with nothing you can't have a small object with a ton of mass. The idea of a big bang means that in an instant there was such a major amount of energy released that it started creating matter. Hense E=mc2... if you think of all the mass (m) in our universe and multiply it by the speed of light (c) squared... you get a big mother fucking number... and that is what was at the moment of the big bang.

The really cool thing i learned about it is that we are still able to measure radiation from that explosion today.

I don't mean to sound like I know everything about space, I'm just a dork that gets high and likes to think about that shit. But I do hope that this thread keeps going because I always love learning about new theories and hearing new ideas.

Oh ya and I've heard there are theories now that try to explain multiple big bangs, and that they are constantly creating new universes. That's some crazy shit.