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RE: Conversational Challenges
November 12, 2015 at 8:02 pm (This post was last modified: November 12, 2015 at 8:02 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(November 12, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
Quote:"What came before the big bang?"

This may actually be a nonsensical question. According to the evidence, time and space both came into being with the expansion of the universe. There was no time before the big bang.

It seems to me that if the multiverse hypothesis pans out, time would seem to be implicitly above the local physical laws of our own Universe.

Perhaps I'm just nesting one egg inside another (our time existing inside a larger version regulating the formation of universes inside the multiverse), but wouldn't the multiverse hypothesis imply that causality -- i.e. time -- exist "above" our local physical laws, hierarchically?

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Conversational Challenges - by Oceanian - November 12, 2015 at 12:08 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Exian - November 12, 2015 at 12:18 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Oceanian - November 12, 2015 at 12:24 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 12, 2015 at 12:36 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 12, 2015 at 7:53 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by LostLocke - November 12, 2015 at 1:02 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Alex K - November 12, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Iroscato - November 12, 2015 at 2:20 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Simon Moon - November 12, 2015 at 3:20 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Little Rik - November 14, 2015 at 7:29 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Grandizer - November 18, 2015 at 4:36 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 12, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Hmmm? - November 12, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 12, 2015 at 12:30 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Crossless1 - November 12, 2015 at 12:31 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 12:34 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Minimalist - November 12, 2015 at 12:37 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Crossless1 - November 12, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Whateverist - November 12, 2015 at 4:41 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 12:45 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 1:16 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Minimalist - November 12, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Edwardo Piet - November 12, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Oceanian - November 12, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 1:57 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by IATIA - November 12, 2015 at 3:35 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Whateverist - November 12, 2015 at 4:37 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Exian - November 12, 2015 at 4:43 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 4:45 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Exian - November 12, 2015 at 4:51 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by ignoramus - November 12, 2015 at 4:51 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Simon Moon - November 12, 2015 at 4:54 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 12, 2015 at 8:02 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 5:23 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by brewer - November 12, 2015 at 5:37 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Cecelia - November 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by The Inquisition - November 12, 2015 at 6:23 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 12, 2015 at 8:03 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 12, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 11:06 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 12, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 13, 2015 at 3:20 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - November 13, 2015 at 5:18 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 13, 2015 at 8:25 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Whateverist - November 13, 2015 at 8:59 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Thumpalumpacus - November 13, 2015 at 8:05 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Oceanian - November 14, 2015 at 4:56 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Whateverist - November 14, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Edwardo Piet - November 14, 2015 at 9:44 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 14, 2015 at 11:10 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by robvalue - November 14, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by ignoramus - November 15, 2015 at 2:47 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Oceanian - November 17, 2015 at 11:16 am
RE: Conversational Challenges - by LadyForCamus - December 8, 2015 at 12:26 pm
RE: Conversational Challenges - by Edwardo Piet - December 8, 2015 at 1:07 pm
Conversational Challenges - by LadyForCamus - December 8, 2015 at 1:24 pm



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