(November 9, 2012 at 11:44 am)John V Wrote:Another speculation could be:(November 9, 2012 at 10:02 am)pocaracas Wrote: Mainstream science says that, since the big-bang, approximately 13.6 billion years have passed, 13.6*10^9 years.I've already done the speculation:
What happened before the big-bang is speculation. If there was already a Universe, so much the better, but we don't know.
The universe could have existed eternally as a singularity. However, there's then no reason for the big bang.
Universe was not a singularity, collapsed into a singularity, then big bang: i.e. a cyclic universe.
- Eternal multiple singularities, when two collide (whatever that means), a big bang is generated.
- The singularity was always there, brooding, or something beyond our physics (as yet) until it poped.
- singularities are generated from other processes beyond our physics.
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I could probably go on forever, imagination is one of those awesome infinite powers... or maybe the only infinite power in the known Universe!