On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:38:23 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:53:37 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sure, it started 14 billion years ago, but that's 14 billion of *our* years. 
>>> Time slows in a high gravity field, and squishing an entire universe into 
>>> one dot is definitely going to give you a high gravity field, so maybe the 
>>> first 10^-43 seconds of the universe lasted forever.
>> 
>> Congratulations, you've solved the mystery of the sudden inflation.
>
>Actually, I suspect I have it backwards, tho. Time goes slower inside the 
>monoblock for observers outside the monoblock. I'm not sure it goes the 
>other way around, tho. :-)

While we are inside the universe now what would the situation be if we were here
then? I hope that is not as stupid as it sounds talking about viewing the
universe from outside but I cannot visualise it any other way. Actually I know

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Regards
     Stephen

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