andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 19-7-2010 13:52, Warp wrote:
> > andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >> Big Bang theory says that at the moment of the Big Bang, time was 
> >> created.
> > 
> >   Are you sure about that? The Big Bang theory cannot go back to the
> > initial singularity because there are no established theories which could
> > be used to describe what happened when the universe was smaller than a
> > certain (larger-than-zero) size. As wikipedia puts it: "there is no physical
> > model that can explain the earliest moments of the universe's existence
> > (Planck time) because of a lack of a consistent theory of quantum gravity."
> > 
> >   There's thus a finite limit beyond which current theories cannot go
> > because of lacking theories. Hence it's impossible to say what exactly
> > happened before that.

> I fail to see how that is incompatible with what I said.

  If there's no physical model that can explain the earliest moments of the
universe, how can you say that "at the moment of the Big Bang, time was
created"? Exactly on which physical model is this claim based on? Or is it
simply a conjecture?

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                                                          - Warp

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