(July 20, 2012 at 5:42 am)Ace Otana Wrote: If a clock entered the outer edges of a black hole, it'll stop. Mass effects time, and that when all the mass/energy was concentrated into an infinite speck, time itself cannot exist. So there cannot be a cause, seeing as there is no time for a cause to exist in.
It stops from the perspective of an outside observer. The clock keeps going.
The real point is that time is a parameter given favored value by humans because it's easy for us to understand the world from the point of view of constant, forward moving time. It has no favored value in comparison to space, energy or momentum.
But yes, the universe didn't have a beginning because time exponentially loses definitive value as one gets closer to the big bang. (What's north of the North Pole?)
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