i'll believe this. ultimately, i don't think it matters a whole lot. i mean, it's interesting, sure. it's just....

i think we're philosophically mature enough at this point to realize, without too much debate, that whatever kind of explosion created the observable universe wasn't a unique event. maybe it was two slabs of energy smashing into each other in some distant dimension, as m-theory proposed. maybe it was some magic creature farting. or maybe it was something falling into a black hole. what's the difference, really?

whatever it was was some kind of explosion that happened in some kind of....structure....that already existed. we have no concept of that pre-existing whatever and aren't likely to gain one any time soon.

so, "something went boom" is good enough for me. the details are just academic.

http://www.nature.com/news/did-a-hyper-black-hole-spawn-the-universe-1.13743