“There was no time before big bang” – what does that mean?
In: Physics
Time is the measurement of change, and before the big bang there was nothing to change because there was nothing happening.
Like, imagine turning on a computer for the first time. The processor only reads zeroes and ones, right. So before the first ‘1’ it’s all just a big ‘0’. It doesn’t matter if that zero lasted for a second or a hundred million years, because the process started with the one
How do you measure time?
We can measure by the travel of light or the decay of radioactive atoms. By events happening in sequence.
If everything is infitely close together, what does time mean? There is no distances, there’s no decay, there’s no sequence. Time at that point doesn’t mean anything.
That’s my understanding at least
One of many unfalisifiable popsci gotchas, it’s modern mysticism just like most shit you hear in the gym and from entertainers like michio kaku and NDT. It’s something Soybob Redditpants would say to impress you and himself with his massive intellect, even though it means nothing, the runaway math it’s extrapolated from means nothing, and he can do nothing with this knowledge of the universe.
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