(May 21, 2012 at 4:37 pm)Ben Davis Wrote:(May 19, 2012 at 8:37 am)Paul the Human Wrote: It seems like a lot of people have trouble comprehending that there is no such thing as "before the universe". There is, and has always been, everything. The observable expansion of the universe (everything) suggests that everything once occupied a single point... and 'everything' includes time. By definition, there can be no before. Everything is everything. There can be no nothing.
Doesn't the 'bubble universes' hypothesis claim that space & time exist as some sort of 'in potentia' framework in which 'bubbles' of universe form through whatever functions 'cause' the expansion of a universe (e.g big bang)?
Or am I talking gibberish?
Not gibberish. It sounds like one of a few multiverse theories, although one of the least plausible of the mainstream.
