Compression And Expansion

"Fantasy in the Age of Science."

Anderson writes that the universe:

"...seems to have begun as a kind of super-black hole, perhaps 15 billion years ago, everything compressed together in a tiny volume that then exploded." (p. 283)

He then asks:

"But how could something which held itself so tightly ever start expanding?" (ibid.)

- and provisionally concludes:

"It looks as if, under those conditions, the very laws of nature were radically different from those we know. There may not have been any laws of nature." (ibid.)

He suggests that science approaches its limits and becomes fantasy. However, this article was published in 1981. Since then, scientific cosmogony has advanced beyond the idea of an inexplicably exploding super-black hole. See a summary of the accounts given in other works by Anderson, here.