Timeline for In Which Space Did the Big Bang Occur? [duplicate]
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:48 | comment | added | Alexander Torstling | Thanks everyone for taking time to answer and comment my question and redirecting to previous similar questions without being smirk about it. I even got a polite question regarding whether the duplicate answered my question! A breath of fresh air compared to stack overflow! | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:46 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Did spacetime start with the Big bang? | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 20:09 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | garyp | My earlier comment was too glib. Perhaps somewhat better: we're rather sure that the theory breaks down for some level of density, and any predictions for times prior to that are invalid. For example, as @AnnaV points out, the theory that predicts a singularity does not take quantum mechanics into account. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 19:53 | comment | added | garyp | @KyleKanos Point taken. But as it relates to the OP: if you take that definition, then something existed before the big bang. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 19:51 | comment | added | CR Drost | Possible duplicate of Did spacetime start with the Big bang? | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 19:45 | answer | added | Timaeus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 19:06 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | @garyp: To be fair, it depends on who you ask because some define the big bang as post inflation | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:54 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @garyp I shouldn't have made such a strong statement; I should have said that the events that happened are not well known. Alexander Torstling - both the ideas of a finitely old and an infinitely old universe are a big unsatisfying, but physics has never stopped for philosophy. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:48 | comment | added | Alexander Torstling | @HDE 226868: I find this philosophically unsatisfying, because it would then not be very far from "the universe appeared out of thin air". | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:44 | comment | added | garyp | @HDE226868 No current theory predicts that the universe did not exist before the big bang. See the multiple other similar questions. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | Effectively a duplicate of Did spacetime start at the big bang and multiple other similar questions | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 18:32 | history | asked | Alexander Torstling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |