(October 16, 2020 at 5:43 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: As far as I understand it, mainstream physics considers there to have been no time before the Big Bang, so talking about "universe before ours" contradicts that.
Not really. If there’s anything to the ‘Big Crunch’ hypothesis (and it’s still in the running), time begins anew with each universe. To say ‘universe before ours’ is a fault of language, not of physics.
Boru
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