Cosmic Microwave "ripples" may mean time did not exist before the universe.

[長門有希]

I just can't understand how time can't exist.

[ColdWave]

[QUOTE=Ezhik;26630681]I just can't understand how time can't exist.[/QUOTE]

Picture nothing at all just blank nothing.

[editline]11th December 2010[/editline]

If I think really deeply about this I get a "Humanity is not supposed to figure this out" Vibe

[bravehat]

[QUOTE=DrLuke;26619774]It's so weird to imagine a "somewhere" without time. How does it work? Is everything "happening" at the same "time" ? How does an event look without time?[/QUOTE]

Wibley wobbly timey wimey, it's all happening at the same time.

[MachiniOs]

[QUOTE=johan_sm;26609953]If there is no time, nothing can move.[/QUOTE]

It can but it would just go on for infinity.

[BmB]

I don't understand the ridiculous notion that something can exist before the universe, considering the very definition of the universe mandates that anything that exists is inside it.

Calling moron scientists and science reporters who don't know how to express themselves, should stfu and do science instead of making up crazy shit to try and "make it accessible to the masses".

[linksysruler]

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;26609491]exploded into being some 13.7 billion years ago at the Big Bang[/QUOTE]

[quote]13.7 billion years ago[/quote]

[quote]billion[/quote]

Billion and Trillion are two very different numbers that should not be carelessly mixed up like that.

[Explosions]

[QUOTE=papaya;26609921]But, if time is an invented concept, then it wouldn't exist until we invented it, right?
...right?

Hey, I have a theoretical degree in physics.[/QUOTE]

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[ridinmybike]

No one knows anything, everything we understand is only theories and speculations, which could be wrong and misunderstood.

[paramud]

Well of course a concept didn't exist before existence.

[Lazor]

[QUOTE=Paramud;26659279]Well of course a concept didn't exist before existence.[/QUOTE]

time isn't merely a concept that only exists in our brains you dunce

[snuwoods]

[QUOTE=Robber;26610307]It's really hard to imagine what could possibly cause the big bang when nothing existed before it, not even time itself. I hope I live long enough to read a definite answer to that.[/QUOTE]

The way I see it is that there was no "cause" to the big bang. I propose that the prerequisite to existence is that there may only be an aggregate energy of zero in our universe. Basically in the void of nothing, the universe as we know it popped into being. So all that was needed to spark it was a separated, but equal mix of positive and negative energy. I don't think there needs to be any inspiration for that to happen. It exists simply because it can. I look at our universe as a oil/water-like mix of positive/negative energy. Of course I'm simplifying, and basing this completely on conjecture, but...