Digital BW, The Print

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

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 >>There was NO time before the BIG BANG...
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 >Then logically the universe has always existed, since "before" has no
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I don't want to really continue this, as it is getting way off topic,
but, our definition of universe itself may be broken...  It is possible
that universes (we would call them that) simply blink in and out in a
froth of reality like random bubbles in a good beer... Each bubble would
be a universe, but, since the concept of THE universe implies
encompassing all existence we end up with another BIG semantic barrier..

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 >>The Universe prior to the Big Bang is believed
 >>to have been essentially a single unit of energy/mass
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 >How can the universe prior to the Big Bang have been anything?  You just
 >said that time didn't exist before the Big Bang; therefore there was no
 >"prior."
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EXACTLY... There is just time in OUR universe... and everything else
outside it, either in the sense of 3 euclidean dimensions or in the
4th...or 5th..

Literally, for our universe, until the big bang, is called pre-time..
But that doesn't really help..

 >This is what happens when physics becomes more of an exercise in 
mathematics
 >than a study of reality.
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Well, even 30 years ago talking  about accretion disks and quantum
tunneling fell into that category...  The latter is already being talked
about for use in future computer chips, the former helps explain pulsars
and quasars..  Even quarks and color theory may one day allow us to
build even smaller devices..   What today is esoteric math or philosophy
(and boy are they intertwined in quantum physics), may be the basis of
tomorrow's breakthroughs..


Keith




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