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minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down5·1 year ago“Before” the Big Bang is nonsense. It’s equivalent to saying “head north from the North Pole.”
minus-squarekureta@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agovery nice analogy. I’m stealing it.
minus-squarekemsat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI still think that means I have to up towards Polaris.
minus-squarenothacking@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s not so much that we know there was nothing before it, but that we can’t figure out what was before it.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoNo, in our current best-supported model of the universe (Lambda-CDM) the concept of “before” the Big Bang is meaningless. It is the apex of the spacetime “bell” from which everything emerged.
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIt is incoherent that sonething could suddenly exist out of nothingness. Clearly the universe does not exist, this is all an elaborate statistical artifact.
“Before” the Big Bang is nonsense. It’s equivalent to saying “head north from the North Pole.”
very nice analogy. I’m stealing it.
I still think that means I have to up towards Polaris.
It’s not so much that we know there was nothing before it, but that we can’t figure out what was before it.
No, in our current best-supported model of the universe (Lambda-CDM) the concept of “before” the Big Bang is meaningless. It is the apex of the spacetime “bell” from which everything emerged.
It is incoherent that sonething could suddenly exist out of nothingness.
Clearly the universe does not exist, this is all an elaborate statistical artifact.