Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   It just brings the (maybe a bit philosophical) question: How is it possible
> that everything has always existed?
>
>   (Of course this question becomes very complicated even in the physics
> sense, as the concept of time "before" the Big Bang becomes a bit complex.
> It's impossible for us to tell what, if anything, was before the Big Bang,
> including time itself. It's one of those impassable horizons in the universe.
> If time didn't "exist" before the Big Bang, then exactly what is it that
> happened?)

Hm, I like the idea someone brought up some posts ago:

Looking at the state of matter and the universe close to the Big Bang, isn't it
quite remniscient of a black hole?

Now near the singularity of a black hole, time slows down and approaches
standstill, from an outside observer's point of view.

So if we go back in time to the Big Bang, aren't we in a sense going back
*infinitely* long in time, making the question of what was *before* it a moot
one?

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