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I think it’s worth pointing out that there are two “big bang”s. There’s the supposed singularity, which is what it seems we’re talking about here. And there’s t
by falseprofit 2y ago
I think it’s worth pointing out that there are two “big bang”s. There’s the supposed singularity, which is what it seems we’re talking about here. And there’s the expansion that immediately follows the singularity. We have good evidence for the latter, and the former is on much shakier ground than is widely understood.
- nico 2y agoThat’s cool. Could it be possible that the expansion that immediately follows the singularity is not necessarily pointing to a very distant past space time, but rather to a recurrent cyclical process that is currently happening for everything around us? Essentially, is there time-aliasing* in our measurements? And if so, does that point to cyclical processes and thus uncertainty about any potential absolute age of the universe? ie. If the universe behaves in a cycle, we might not be able to tell what number of cycle we are in, but maybe only our current stage/progress along the overall cycle * the “double slit in time” experiment seems to show that https://youtu.be/b9O6iCM4vCg?feature=shared https://youtu.be/b9O6iCM4vCg?feature=shared