What Was Here Before the Beginning? [Big Bang, Cosmology]

RedNova.com ^ | 06 January 2005 | Martin Rees & Helen Matsos

[PatrickHenry]

This is the second thread in this series. Here's the first:
How Unique Is Our Cosmic Patch? [Cosmology, Anthropic Principle].

[PatrickHenry]

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[Grut]

Before the Big Bang there was THE PLAN. The Big Bang was THE PLAN going the way plans go....

[RAY]

Say what!

[ProudVet77]

[pipecorp]

I thought that the consensus was that up to eleven different dimensions might exist in the string and brane theories?

[RightWhale]

what we call our "observable universe" may be, in the perspective of cosmic reality, no more than one twig on one tree in some enormous forest

and, there is no way to see or move to the other twigs. This is where we might speculate that the twigs are linked after all, but through the extraspatial dimensions that we still can't deal with in the lab.

[GretchenM]

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[RightWhale]

Eleven is a good solution. There may be twelve, with time on two dimensions--the principle of causality will have to go.

[Petronski]

What Was Here Before the Beginning?

The Alpha and Omega: God.

[Democrap]

It's easy Ray,
There was nothing until there was something that blew up. And now it's turning back into nothing. But now is not this now but the earlier now.

[Tarpaulin]

"9. Mistakes: We will correct our mistakes and endeavor to cause source websites to correct their mistakes."

"frquently"
Here

I enjoyed it. Thanks.

[pipecorp]

This may be out there, but what about an inverse of time?

[PatrickHenry]

"frquently"

Fixed. Thanks.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Y'know, the correct answer to the question might well be "None of your business."

[Ramius]

What happened before there was time? Dunno. I wasn't there.

At least... I don't think so. I might be wrong.

[Focault's Pendulum]

First off...PH...I want to thank you for keeping me on you ping list. I almost never respond to these threads.

Having said that...this is what pisses me off.

Without any sort of mathematical background.....I had been lost, but reveled in these fantastic theories.

Little by little...I either taught myself the math..or allowed you good people to walk me through it.

I'm gonna hit 50 soon...I need more time.

How do you guys do it...I mean...knowing there are more discoveries, that you will never see.

[VadeRetro]

Nonetheless it will go on for an infinite time.

This is obviously impossible since Dataman is never wrong.

[RightWhale]

Here's the deal: we can never know the true reality of the universe-in-itself. However, that's not what we're here for, so it's not a problem. What are we here for? Well, today it's to shovel out a foot and a half of snow.

[JohnG45]

Now why did you have to do that? I almost lost my dinner!