Billy if I am misleading this young man then please correct me. I don't think anything I have said outside of speculation is outside the standard model, I'm just trying to help. I can see your frustration but why vent on me ...
I guess I do owe you an apology - I was more commenting on the interaction between you two - That was encouraging RickyH to post errors and ignore some hard to believe facts I (and AlphaNumeric) had given him. I did re read your posts and found one thing to comment on:
You have not said anything that was blatantly wrong, but some things were at least misleading:
In Post 58 you said: “well we can't be sure past the CMB because there was no light”
Initially, no matter existed, only intense energy, so intense that if there were matter, it would be destroyed, reduced to energy. I assume this energy is best thought of as electromagnetic waves, of extremely short wave lengths, shorter than the highest energy gamma ray ever seen, but I am not well versed in early cosmology – just guessing here. Thus a minute fraction of this energy probably was “light” yes visible light, as I assume the spectral distribution of this EM energy was quite like that of a black body with unimaginably high temperature. It is a characteristic of black body radiation that at ANY wave length, even those much longer than the peak, the intensity increases with temperature, so if that primordial energy was EM waves, then the visible light intensity was far greater than at the surface of the hottest star.
Later when the universe was larger and cooler hydrogen and helium, a fully ionized plasma, formed from the sea of nuclear particles. With a little more cooling, some of the free electrons were captured by the protons and He nucleus. This surely make light. I would be inclined to think it must have at least resembled the discrete line spectral were seen form these gases today, but if the density was very high, then it may have initially been a continuum, not discrete lines as in a very dense plasma, there is so much mutual interactions that the upper states of radiative transitions are highly disturbed – not at the energy levels of the isolated atoms. My experimental Ph.D. was related to this in a dense Argon plasma – I measured the broadening of the lines (and even the shift of their peaks) caused by the electric fields of free electrons passing near an atom which was radiating. (This effect is called Stark broadening.) I was the first to do this for the lines coming from an ion. The effect is greater for the positive ions in relatively cold dense plasmas as the electron curves a little in the positive ion's field - has longer lasting "near by" effect.
One aspect of the CBR, of concern to me, is due to the fact that when this plasma was dense, even if well ionized, the radiation emitted by one atom did not travel very far before it was reabsorbed by another. Eventually, however, the density fell enough for the typical photon to travel great distances before it was reabsorbed and then the CBR was freed from the gas clouds that were beginning to form under the influence of the mutual gravity. Thus, I would expect the CBR to still show peaks due to the original line spectra of hydrogen (greatly shifted into long wavelengths microwaves), but still not the black body radiation that is observed. Thus something is wrong either with my “facts” (i.e. there are still traces of the line radiation in the CBR) or my understanding of how the CBR formed.
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Your post 53, is OK, even presents come facts correctly, and clearly last part is labeled “speculation’ but can be misunderstood to be implying that space existed before the big bang with some information that help guide /cause the inflation. However, it seems to have mislead RickyH as in the next post he states: “Which translates to it
having a temperature and there for it contains matter. However I don’t understand how
laws that only apply to space after the inflation had to exist before it began. Like how can matter and anti matter do so much, so incredibly fast.”
I.e. he thinks temperatures can only exist when matter does and that the laws of physics are evolving, which may be true but you were not stating that. Of course you cannot be held responsible for his assumptions / speculations.
Somehow I feel comforted in knowing there's a lot of stuff out there, some of that stuff is probably thinking somewhat like me 