| Oliver Wong 2005-12-15, 6:55 pm |
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"charles hottel" <jghottel@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It is the "something from nothing" (actually quite a lot from nothing)
> that I think requires great faith. In our universe we have a law of the
> conservation of mass and energy. Of course that law need not apply prior
> to the beginning of our universe. Of course for all we know there was no
> existence of time before our universe, so the concept of "before" or
> "prior" may not apply either. Because I live in this universe I have never
> seen "something from nothing" occur so I am not predisposed to readily
> accept it. Well all this is just so much speculation and I for one would
> reserve judgment until more is known. We simply do not know if anything
> came before the big bang and even if it did it seems likely that the big
> bang destroyed any evidence of it. None of this will stop humans from
> inquiring further into their origins and who know what we may find out in
> the future.
I think the general belief (among believers of the Big Bang theory
anyway), is that there is indeed no "before" the Big Bang. Space and time
are linked in that there cannot exist time without space. And space did not
exist before the Big Bang, so there was not anything there to be "destroyed"
by the Big Bang.
The "Big Bang" is not actually an explosion in the intuitive sense of
the word. It is the rapid expansion of space itself, as opposed to the rapid
expansion of matter within space.
- Oliver
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