(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.
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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.
I clearly did not say the singularity was an event. There was a change. Something started everything.
Quote:Yes, it actually is part of the theory that the *previous* spacetimes already exist.
Note how you had to say *previous* when I said they have to all exist already--past and present. BECAUSE if all of them do not exist at once (in other words they exist sequentially as the theory clearly states), you have a very big problem of a past infinite. We could not have gotten to our current universe without an infinite amounts of universes already being created. We would still be waiting for an infinite amount of universe to be sparked before ours could be sparked--which will never happen, because there still needs to be an infinite more that need to come first. Why can't you address this!? You keep asserting that how it is. Explain why we could ever logically get to our current universe.