(October 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm)Saerules Wrote:(October 10, 2009 at 1:10 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(October 8, 2009 at 1:09 pm)Saerules Wrote: If time did not exist before the 'Big Bang'... then the Big Bang could never have happenedUnless the Big Bang was the start of time and space, which is the current theory. Essentially all of space was contained within an infinitely small, infinitely dense point with no time. Time began, and the point expanded rapidly.There is no time in which the actions of the Big Bang could take place... so essentially there would have to be time behind the Big Bang. They do not ask this question erroneously, because there would have had to be a 'before the Bang' for the Bang to have taken place. Unless "nothing became something and exploded into everything" is "true" to the theory of the Big Bang ^_^
Pretty much a layman's explanation of the Big Bang idea.
Then the layman's explanation is completely bunk sounding. Time could never have 'begun', because it would never have happened without time in which to begin. I disagree with 'the current theory' in that case... because it is no more sensical than a God 'beginning' at some point, and creating everything from nothing. How'd the 'speck' get there?
You clearly need to study physics more...
Time is a single dimension of measurement related to causality and is individual to each (at-least) 4-Dimensional universe and as such does not need to exist prior to the big bang (infinite singularity, God), or may exist in the form of some higher-dimensional causality (infinite regress, multiverse).
You need to remember most importantly that the 4th Dimension is a a single dimension of measurement within a single 4-dimensional universe (each universe has it's own, independent dimension of time) and as such it is impossible for time (in the sense of the 4th dimension) to exist outside the limits of space time, including at the singularity which gave rise to space time. This does not mean that there aren't other dimensions that measure causality in the way our dimension of time does, which is what i roughly think you got caught up in. Causality can exist outside of the 4th dimension.
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