what's bothered me for years about the whole Big Bang thing is this...
Details of what the universe was like before the big bang may be forever lost to us, according to a new analysis. Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, describes the evolution of the cosmos but breaks down at the moment of the big bang, preventing researchers from understanding its origins. To glimpse behind the veil, a researcher has applied a speculative theory that treats the universe as pixilated into tiny atom-like units of space and time. His findings suggest that experiments would never be sensitive enough to fully reconstruct the state of the universe before the bang.
I will state I'm by no means a physicist nor a mathemetician of any kind. So maybe there's something I just don't understand that can't be explained to me without me spending a whole lot of time on the mathematics... that I don't want to spend...
But what's bothered me for years about the whole Big Bang thing is this...
If everything in the universe is expanding, including you know, the usuals... matter, energy, --- and Time... TIME! hullo?? TIME?? ...
Then maybe using a word like "before" in relation to this Big Bang is kind of a conundrum misnomer of some sort.
I just wonder if maybe this obsession with origin and what was before, and where things came from (notice tense)... I just wonder if that's all a side-effect of being stuck in a some kind of proverbial Flatland of sorts.
Maybe time in circular and what is happening now is before the Big Bang. Then, when we are all destroyed in the Bang, everying will happen again, repeating all over and over forever? Just a silly theory I guess...
Posted by Georjean | Sunday 08 July 2007 2:00PM
I don't think the loop theory is silly at all. Indeed, I think it might be the closest we squares come to escaping the Flatland perspective.
However, unfortunately, it is still stuck in the Flatland. *sigh*
Posted by Chloe | Sunday 08 July 2007 2:21PM
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Maybe time in circular and what is happening now is before the Big Bang. Then, when we are all destroyed in the Bang, everying will happen again, repeating all over and over forever? Just a silly theory I guess...
I don't think the loop theory is silly at all. Indeed, I think it might be the closest we squares come to escaping the Flatland perspective.
