The trouble I have with the Big Bang is that with that model it all had to happen once. That’s a helluva explosion/creation, but by everything we know there is nothing that makes the explosion gain energy as it continues. Yet space is expanding; the galaxies are flying farther and farther apart. A single cosmic event doesn’t work that way, at least none of the others do (black hole, pulsars, neutron stars, X-rays produced by other cosmic events.) They happen, they travel, but they don’t speed up.

I too have long regarded the expanding universe model as problematic, and have recently arrived at a different perspective. Rather than seeing the universe as exploding, I've come to regard it as erstwhile nothingness hosting boundless complexification. Or, to put it more concretely, inwardly complexifying naked singularity.

Overcoming the conventional view is challenging, as we invariably see ourselves as minuscule perceivers abiding within an immense spacetime environment. The relatively recent discovery that this environment is expanding over time leads us to conclude that it originated some 13.8 billion years ago in what must have been a big-banging singularity.

But our frustrating inability to integrate the theory of General Relativity, which accurately describes this macroscopic view of spacetime, with the Standard Model of Particle Physics, which accurately describes underlying quantum phenomena, is quite troubling.

GR postulates a gravitational force that deforms spacetime in the presence of matter and energy. And gravity is thus far unobserved at the quantum level. Furthermore, quantum behavior is irrespective of time.

For this and a variety of other reasons I've come to regard our experience of existence as boundless complexification timelessly imploding within an original singularity representing the infinite potential of erstwhile nothingness.

Tom