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Thursday, November 5. 2015

What came before the Big Bang?

Did time begin at that instant, so that there was no time or space "before"?  Or are space and time human constructs? Of course they are. Humans have been making up our understanding of the universe forever. We are wired to do that although we know that it is all beyond our comprehension and our feeble animal senses.


Good fun to contemplate, especially with medical marijuana:  Video discussion at Aeon.



Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:11 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Big bang? Is that a band?

Seriously, the first thing we'd have to do is develop believable science that it occurred instead of the faith-based phenomenon wherein it violated the laws of the universe it purportedly made. We'd probably start by proving the universe is relativistic instead of that the universe only includes local relativistic effects if we stand on one foot and squint.

And so on and so on. Faith in the established standard model is facing some real challenges.
#1 Ten on 2015-11-05 13:32 (Reply)
...we'll also have to reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics - the physical was produced by strictly a-physical ways and means.

http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html

Or as Maudlin recommends, if you spot the sheer implausibility the answer is to stop questioning. (Reminds one of redefining the meter by the changing speed of light - problem of variable light speed solved!)

And which, for those pushing the BB at the days of creation and seeing a fit, isn't a bad idea at all...
#2 Ten on 2015-11-05 13:51 (Reply)
Who cares how the Earth and stars were formed...
#3 forks make us fat on 2015-11-05 14:18 (Reply)
PR.
#4 jma on 2015-11-05 16:45 (Reply)
What came before the big bang?

The big dinner and big movie.
#5 clifford on 2015-11-05 18:27 (Reply)

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