Re:Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No...
by deepsun on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:35PM
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Not really, because you again assuming that there's an independent time-line, where a ball of universe expands and collapses.
Our current understanding of the Universe is that _time itself_ "expands and collapses". You cannot talk about time "before", because there was no time "before" the big bang, just as there's no space "outside" the ball, to talk about its boundaries.
Our current understanding of the Universe is that _time itself_ "expands and collapses". You cannot talk about time "before", because there was no time "before" the big bang, just as there's no space "outside" the ball, to talk about its boundaries.