Good evening,
I have been pondering a subject very near and dear to my mind for a very long time-- Did the big bang keep banging after it banged, or did it contract? It must have gone somewhere, I mean, matter cannot be created or destroyed, so did it become a black hole? A psychic ball of energy? I strongly suggest that through my experiments with use of ion cannons (which i can shoot and diffuse mid air to make black holes off the back porch of my laboratory under Murmansk Fjord ), after it quit banging items into existence, it simply released a few extra ions, cranked up a black hole, and then it vacuumed itself into its own portal of an endless abyss.
Sincerely yours in science,
Dan