I was reading about Hawking, and he said that there was really no point, scientifically, in considering what time was/wasn't before a certain time (not sure if it was t=0 or t=planck time), due to our inability ever to collect information at that point.
But I'm curious if there are philosophical positions to which views on the Big Bang matter. For example, is it possible that the entire universe is in a state of superposition, and that indeterminacy is a kind of relative effect? Was it possible that entire galaxies full of material started off in an entangled state?
Most importantly, even though we might never be able to collect direct information, is there a possibility that there's information embedded in material properties or interactions, or is there really a brick wall that can never be broken through?
Okay, sorry for the woo, but I really am curious about philosophical side-notes to modern physics that may end up getting ignored because it's just not the stuff that scientists can do good work with.
But I'm curious if there are philosophical positions to which views on the Big Bang matter. For example, is it possible that the entire universe is in a state of superposition, and that indeterminacy is a kind of relative effect? Was it possible that entire galaxies full of material started off in an entangled state?
Most importantly, even though we might never be able to collect direct information, is there a possibility that there's information embedded in material properties or interactions, or is there really a brick wall that can never be broken through?
Okay, sorry for the woo, but I really am curious about philosophical side-notes to modern physics that may end up getting ignored because it's just not the stuff that scientists can do good work with.
