POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Something from Nothing? : Re: Something from Nothing? Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:19:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Something from Nothing?  
From: gregjohn
Date: 28 Jul 2009 08:30:00
Message: <web.4a6eee65a9205ca034d207310@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>   (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?)
>

But don't we know that matter as we know it didn't exist. Isn't it the case that
we even know that matter as we know it wasn't even there at 10^-42 seconds?


Off-topic rant: notice how none of you said pow(10,-43)?


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