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How can the big bang occur mathematically?
As we know time began with the big bang. Before that there was no time, no laws, nothing. Mathematically how can an event take place when no time passes by? How did the big bang took place when there ...
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Does the expansion of the universe soon after the Big Bang affect the amount of time that light takes to reach us?
If faster than light travel is impossible, how is it that light emitted from matter so close together in the time soon after the Big Bang is only now just reaching us? I would assume that there would ...
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Did space and time exist before the Big Bang? [duplicate]
I accept the Big Bang theory. What I can't understand is how there can be a where or when to the Big Bang if space time did not exist prior to it. Did space and time exist prior to the Big Bang?
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Is this a great flaw in big bang theory? [duplicate]
Einstein said that, Time & Space cannot exists without one another. Big bang says, time didn't exist before the big bang. So the Primordial ball referred in the Big Bang theory didn't had any ...
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What was ticking just after the Big Bang?
When reading about the Big Bang, I see phrases like 3 trillionths of a second after... So, what was ticking to give a time scale like this? We define time now in terms of atomic oscillations, but ...
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Are there any theories that explain the very beginning of absolutely everything? [closed]
Of course there's the theory of The Big Bang, and there are theories on what caused The Big Bang, but what was the cause of the very first thing that ever happened? What started every
I also won't ...
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How can something happen when time does not exist?
I saw this documentary hosted by Stephen Hawkins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhd05ZVYWg
And if I didn't get it wrong, it says that there was no time before the big bang, time was created there.
So how ...
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What did Hawking mean? 'Time started at the big bang'. Book suggestions please [closed]
After writing down this question, I have come to realize that. What I really want is reading materials on the questions below.
Before the big bang there was no such thing as 'time' (Steven Hawking on ...
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Could there be more universes?
In the documentary: "Curiosity - Did God Create the Universe (on YouTube)", theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking states that time did not exist before the big bang.
The first ...
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understanding time: Is time simply the rate change?
Is time simply the rate of change?
If this is the case and time was created during the big bang would it be the case that the closer you get to the start of the big bang the "slower" things change ...
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Universe Expansion as an absolute time reference
Why we call "constant" to the Hubble constant?,
if the universe were really expanding then the Hubble "constant" should change, being variable, smaller and smaller..with "time".
Other example/view ...
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Did time exist before the creation of matter in the universe?
Does time stretch all the way back for infinity or was there a point when time appears to start in the universe?
I remember reading long ago somewhere that according to one theory time began shortly ...
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Big bang and time
I heard Carl Sagan talking about the Universe 15 Billion years ago, and the Big Bang. He made the statement that it was the biggest explosion of all time (at first I thought this a subtle pun). This ...
