What was there before the Big Bang?

by Brokeback Watchtower 88 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    It might be considered that defining time in relation to movement or velocity is self referential as time is part of the equation i.e velocity is distance over time. Defining time in such a way is circular and logically inconsistent.

    Clearly, time is a measurement between two events occurring. A measurement arbitrarily ascribed however we wish to, in ever decreasing increments and in figures so large as to reel the mind. But these labels are relative to what we perceive and what can be measured, such as the speed of my typing, the speed of light (no relation), the positions of things, even subatomic particles (which is quite another sticky mess according to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle)

    Physics doesn't require time move in one direction only as the math allows events to happen forwards or backwards in time. Such is how the Big Bang theory was postulated, working things backward. In relativistic terms, speed and therefore time are finite in that the speed of light governs all. Then again, quantum entanglement seemingly allows events to affect each other instantly regardless of distance and time. This begs the question of what is an instant?

    What really is time?

  • prologos
    prologos

    Twitch: "--Defining time in such a way is circular and logically inconsistent. perhaps not, because the two terms of the equation describe movement, one through the 3 space dimensions, and the other the duration, or movement through time, the 4st dimension. logically then, the faster you cover ground, the slower or less you move through time, at the speed of light, you stop moving through time. Time of course is key to causality, that of the Beginning Big Bang being the big question. very good post, and one of the few bible truism: Jesus in Acts 1:7: "-- It is not given to  you to understand time--"


  • prologos
    prologos

    Twitch: What really is time? If time is the dimension of duration, it is durable dur=tough, perhaps that why it always was, eternal, before the Big bang?

    Twitch: what is an instant? in our movement through time, the now, at any instant is of zero length, that is why time is so precious, it comes in such small quantities for us. Our brains have so much inertia in their function, that time is sensed in us in increments, like brain waves. Could we one day measure a "Plank" duration, the smallest distance possible to move through time, the true instant? Such discovery would be relevant when we explore the cause of the big bang, surely. just putting these ideas out there.

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  • prologos
    prologos

    The videos are not helpful if there is not a written resume'. and/or your ideas. thanks p.

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