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I really don’t think it’s hard and basically everyone knows what is meant by this. Physicists just like to be pedantic about the technicalities of what “before
by edgyquant 3y ago
I really don’t think it’s hard and basically everyone knows what is meant by this. Physicists just like to be pedantic about the technicalities of what “before” means.
- computerfriend 3y agoEx-physicist, which kind of muddies the water, but I'm not trying to be pedantic when I say "I don't know what this means".
- ravenstine 3y agoTotally off-topic, but what made you leave the physics field? If you don't mind me asking.
- fasterik 3y agoIf we're talking about a singularity, it's not pedantic. If you reverse time and go back to the Big Bang, it's not possible to define what happens after you hit the singularity, at least according to current theories. As another commenter pointed out, the article is referring to the "hot Big Bang era", not the Big Bang singularity, so that's what is causing the confusion. It is possible to talk about what happened during and after cosmic inflation.
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