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The Big bang was a highly unlikely event made possible by the fact that time didn't exist before it happened - thus the whole concept of probability over time f
by erikstarck 16y ago
The Big bang was a highly unlikely event made possible by the fact that time didn't exist before it happened - thus the whole concept of probability over time falls apart. Or maybe of all unlikely events it was the most likely one to occur.
In any case I think it's fascinating that tiny creatures such as ourselves can think thoughts like this. The universe is clearly using us to understand itself.
- mojuba 16y ago> time didn't exist before it happened Do you see what's wrong here? If there was no time, there could be no "before". Besides, if you are talking about probabilities of something to occur, that means there was some cause of that event, and that in turn implies there was time before time started (?) because causes and effects occur in time. These things have nothing to do with the Big Bang theory anyway, let alone all this kind of speculations make little or no sense.
- s_baar 16y agoI'm not sure how to explain the Big Bang, but I'm fairly confident we'll now have to do it without using the word 'is'.
- stcredzero 16y agoSomething for Bill Clinton to do in his retirement?
- nfnaaron 16y ago"The universe is clearly using us to understand itself." We are [part of] the universe. The universe is trying to understand itself.
- Jeema3000 16y agoIt may be easier to just conceptualize it as a singularity that was always existing and always exploding in a single, simultaneous moment of time. Then again maybe not... :)