It's my taxes being flushed down the toilet from the governments last spending spree...

Comments in here take me back to the membrane theory. This theory....to me....offers an explanation of how the universe can start from a single point and have inflation... If you have 2 sheets of paper representing the seperate universes and you touch them flat against each other then you get a single point of contact along the entire sheets of paper. That makes the beginning of the universe a single point but the bang occurs along the entire plane, making it appear to be....inflation? Who knows, maybe our universe is over 300 b light years along the plane but only a 15-90 b from top to bottom....