* The event of any 'Big Bang' marks the birth of "a space-time". So, it is the Big Bang that creates the "point".
It makes no sense to say that the Big Bang started from a point, in a space-time that did not exist !! The article nevertheless is fair on " Inflation of 'false vacuum' ", as the beginning of universes........Read on..... * *Stunning new view of Big Bang’s afterglow shows universe is even older than we thought* [image: AFP PHOTO / ESA–PLANCK COLLABORATION] <http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/5183404071.jpg> AFP PHOTO / ESA–PLANCK COLLABORATIONThe most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background — the relic radiation from the Big Bang — revealing the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe. PARIS — New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought but the core concepts of the cosmos — how it began, what it’s made of and where it’s going — seem to be on the right track. The findings released Thursday bolster a key theory called inflation, which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its now-observable expanse in a fraction of a second. The Big Bang is the most comprehensive theory of the universe’s beginning. It says the visible portion of the universe was smaller than an atom when, in a split second, it exploded, cooled and expanded rapidly, much faster than the speed of light. [image: AFP PHOTO / ESA / LFI] AFP PHOTO / ESA / LFIThe 50-million pixel, all-sky image of the oldest light adds an edge of precision to some existing cosmological theories, defining more precisely the composition of the Universe and its age -- about 80 million years older than previously thought. The European Space Agency’s Planck space probe looked back at the afterglow of the Big Bang, and those results have now added about 80 million years to the universe’s age, putting it 13.81 billion years old. The probe also found that the cosmos is expanding a bit slower than originally thought, has a little less of that mysterious dark energy than astronomers figured and a tad more normal matter. But scientists say those are small changes in calculations about the cosmos, nothing dramatic when dealing with numbers so massive. “We’ve uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe,” said George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge who announced the Planck satellite mapping. “There’s less stuff that we don’t understand by a tiny amount.” The $900 million Planck space telescope was launched in 2009. It has spent 15 1/2 months mapping the sky, examining light fossils and sound echoes from the Big Bang by looking at the background radiation in the cosmos. The device is expected to keep transmitting data until late 2013, when it runs out of cooling fluid. Related - See what NASA calls the ‘most amazing high definition image of Earth’<http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/26/see-what-nasa-calls-the-most-amazing-high-definition-image-of-earth/> - NASA measures ‘monster’ black hole’s spin for first time, clocks it at nearly 1.08 billion km/h<http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/28/nasa-measures-monster-black-holes-spin-for-first-time-clocks-it-at-nearly-1-08-billion-kmh/> - NASA’s NuSTAR telescope captures first glimpses of two mysterious black holes in galaxy 7 million light years away<http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/08/nasas-nustar-telescope-captures-first-glimpses-of-two-mysterious-black-holes-in-galaxy-7-million-light-years-away/> Officials at NASA, which also was part of the experiment, said this provided a deeper understanding of the intricate history of the universe and its complex composition. Outside scientists said the result confirms on a universal scale what the announcement earlier this month by a different European group confirmed on a subatomic scale — that they had found the Higgs boson particle which explains mass in the universe. “What a wonderful triumph of the mathematical approach to describing nature,” said Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist who was not part of the new research. “It’s an amazing story of discovery.” 08:13ET 21-03-13
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