A cosmic puzzle for astrophysicists to solve: Why did the Big Bang release so much energy?

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Obviously the Big Bang released the amount of energy within the singularity before it exploded.

But what contained that energy for it to accumulate to the explosive potential it released?
If there instead had been a leak, the energy might have squirted out gradually without blasting a whole universe. For there to have been an explosion that powerful, the energy of the explosion would have had to remain contained, until the moment of the explosion.

Therefore either there was some counterbalancing force that held the singularity together before the Big Bang, - OR -

the singularity and the energy and material that composed it all compiled together instantaneously, and exploded at that same instant. - OR - ?
 
These unanswered questions are based on scientific presumptions. There's an obvious disconnect. Might be time to reexamine the basic presumptions. It may be easier to adjust them to the unexplained observations, than the other way around.
 
t #2
You stumped me here t.
It's an interesting idea. The idea that comes to mind, we've known for decades about the Doppler shift. The farther galaxies are in the distance, the more rapidly they're receding. Astrophysicists simply assumed the rate of expansion was slowing down, due to gravitational braking. They were so sure no one bothered to check. THEN !!
Somebody did. - uh oh -
The rate of expansion seems to be accelerating, and scientists are dancing a jig trying to come up with an explanation. They're talkin' "dark matter", and "dark energy", and they're essentially blowin' it out their orifi. They don't even pretend to know what it is, only that it sorta has to be there, or ...

Is that what you meant?
If so, what's a better idea?
 
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