[jacknews]

Inflation is mysteriously seemingly the opposite of the very rapid gravitational collapse leading to a black hole, ie inflation is sort of like a white hole.

I tend to think we are a hologram generated from the surface of a black hole, and yes, probably black holes all the way "up".

Of course, it still leaves the question of the first black hole, and why anything at all instead of just nothing.

[zoroaster]

Yup - annoying. The answer seems to be always elusively fractalian; the deeper you go, the deeper it goes.