To explain would be difficult. I only got enough into modern physics to say "nope, not for me." I passed the class and moved on.
Space and time are two manifestations of the same thing. As space gets compacted time slows down. This phenomena is evident around black holes, and indeed around any massive body. As such it makes sense to me that as you go further back towards the big bang that time would start to slow down. When you get to the point where the universe was infinitely dense and compact you would also have time running infinitely slowly. Think of an asymptote (sp?) from math. As you approach a limiting value the line will approach infinity. It will never reach that limiting value but it is clear that it is converging towards that value.
Space and time are two manifestations of the same thing. As space gets compacted time slows down. This phenomena is evident around black holes, and indeed around any massive body. As such it makes sense to me that as you go further back towards the big bang that time would start to slow down. When you get to the point where the universe was infinitely dense and compact you would also have time running infinitely slowly. Think of an asymptote (sp?) from math. As you approach a limiting value the line will approach infinity. It will never reach that limiting value but it is clear that it is converging towards that value.
