I watched this program with a great deal of interest, because I've always been interested the big bang and have a number of questions about it. The program answered some of these questions, but raised a number of others. As a whole, the program seemed an interesting mix of striking imagery, stirring music, poetry and science. Some of my unanswered questions. Before the big bang, we are told, the universe consisted of waves of dark energy, presumably there for an eternity. What, then, caused it to begin to compress, and what at that time rather than 15 billion years ago, or five? It compressed to a point of incredible energy. Do we know where? After the big bang, the French mission shows us, the universe consisted of light and dark patches of energy which later transformed into the universe as we know it. Was that original universe as big as today's, since it seems to be continually expanding? Was that universe immediately after the big bang also expanding? If so, and if the big bang was at one point in space, why is there not a huge area of space from which all matter has moved away?
