Originally Posted by sonar1

Lately I've been contemplating an image that sometimes accompianies shows like The Universe, on the History Channel, etc.:

They sometimes show a pulsating glob of gold colored stuff that then expands exponentially into the known Universe (as everything there is).

My concept is this:

We think of "nothingness" as possessing the physical attributes of a vacume. If that were accurate, it then becomes just as feasible to describe that the strength of this vacume of nothingness "pulled" the universe into existence, and supports its expansion.
Sort of like Bernulli's principle of cavitation pulling the oxygen out of water by lowering the pressure in the pump below the boiling point (gas laws).