(March 8, 2012 at 1:08 pm)picto90 Wrote:(March 8, 2012 at 1:03 pm)Phil Wrote:(March 8, 2012 at 12:57 pm)picto90 Wrote: And I don't understand how the idea that matter has always existed is such a hard thing to wrap ones head around. Surely that's easier to accept that accept that than to accept that "nothing" once existed. Existence being a characteristic that would immediately define it as not nothing.
Want a fun thought? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1095 years there will be no matter in the universe. There will be no light. There will be nothing except quantum fields. Pretty much the "nothing" people claim was before the big bang.
There's something beautifully symmetrical to that...
The bouncing cosmology was written about in 2003 by Aguirre and Gratton. They were writing from the perspective of the bounce being on the other side of the big bang with time and entropy running "away" from the singularity. I'm just looking at the possibility of eternal bouncing in the future as well as the past.
Head swimming yet?
