Re:The Trouble with “The Big Bang”
by jbotz on Sunday September 11, 2022 @02:39PM
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Sabine tries to clarify the various meanings of "Big Bang" here, but one thing confused me more in her explanation... she says, that Einstein's theory "breaks down 10^-43 seconds before the mathematical singularity" and later "until we reach an energy density that roughly corresponds to that which the Large Hadron Collider probes, which brings us to about 10^-12 seconds before the hypothetical Big Bang Event". Given that she defines the "hypothetical Big Bang Event" as the mathematical singularity, shouldn't that be "after" rather than "before" in both cases?
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Re:The Trouble with “The Big Bang”
by ccvannorman on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:21PM
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it is my understanding that Sabine's intention is to say "as you go further back in time, approaching some singularity, Thing Happens at N seconds before you get all the way back to the singularity". So, I think you are correct, and her phrasing has caused this confusion around "before" and "after" terms.