No evidence of time before Big Bang

Re:No evidence of time before Big Bang by jsmcgd on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:17PM (#1998611)

True, but if the first humans on Mars were to find the complete works of Shakespeare buried under the Martian soil, it probably wouldn't be prudent to dismiss it as a cosmological fluke.

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Re:No evidence of time before Big Bang by huxley on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:22PM (#1998787)

Not least because of the astoundingly small number of monkeys found on Mars ...

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Re:No evidence of time before Big Bang by iwwr on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:22PM (#1998623)

True, but try sampling the CMB for long enough and you would find a few lines of Shakespeare in some encoding somewhere.

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Re:No evidence of time before Big Bang by hugh3 on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:34PM (#1998659)

Honestly, we have the statistical techniques needed to figure out whether a given pattern in the CMB is real or not. I'm no statistician, but folks that are can do this kind of thing for breakfast.

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Re:No evidence of time before Big Bang by hasenj on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:26PM (#1999316)

if you choose the encoding such that each letter in the alphabet encodes some Shakespearian paragraph, then you can find many lines of Shakespeare on this very discussion.

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