(February 20, 2018 at 8:15 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(February 20, 2018 at 7:14 pm)SteveII Wrote: I think that is wrong. The standard model most ascribe to has a change in the singularity that resulted in the spacetime manifold we experience now.
To get around the problem I brought up, all of those sequential spacetime manifolds (see where I quoted) have to already exist. That does not seem to be part of the theory. Please address this problem specifically. Most of your statements just seem to be assertions and not part of the model.
First, the singularity is NOT an event: it is a failure of the coordinate system to describe a situation. In this case, if you use standard general relativity, it describes a limit of infinite curvature.
Yes, it actually is part of the theory that the *previous* spacetimes already exist.
Note -- A "singularity" is an actual infinite!!