Vash
Phil try and make sense. And that is exactly my point, there was nothing, no time, no matter, no energy, no PHYSICAL LAWS.
Actually Vash ,we do not know if there were physical laws or not.We can only make inferences about what should be happening at the beginning based on laws that allow us to derive a physical universe consistent with what we observe.In particle accelerators we areable to observe the actions of matter under the extremes of temperature and relativistic velocities.Our models of quantum mechanics allows us to say what is happening up to a certain point
after the origin but not precisely at the beginning because of the nature of matter.That nature is quantum which is to say it comes in discrete packages which are of a finite size.
From the Hyperphysics website
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Quantum properties dominate the fields of atomic and molecular physics. Radiation is quantized such that for a given frequency of radiation, there can be only one value of quantum energy for the photons of that radiation. The energy levels of atoms and molecules can have only certain quantized values. Transitions between these quantized states occur by the photon processes absorption, emission, and stimulated emission.
The physical laws as we know them allow us only to determine what occurs to matter as a result of temperatures present at that moment.
We can say what occurs at the moment 10^-43 sec after origin.The models we have do not allow us to speculate with any confidence beyond this.That is unfortunate but it is a product of the wave nature of matter and,at present,is the best we can do.
10^-43 second is a vanishingly small amount of time.There are also laws built into the universe that may prevent there being a time before this as a consequence of the structure of space-time.The uncertainty principle forbids there being a reltionship between energy and time smaller than a certain amount and is given by the formula
dE x
dt = h/2pi where
d is means change in value and h is Planck's constant.There is also a relationship between momentum {p} and position {x} which follows the same formula and is written thus
dp x
dx = h/2pi/
If we postulate that the universe had an origin at T=O then the energy scales to infinity and the monentum and position fall to 0 which viiolates the uncertainty principle.We are then faced with the question of how can the uncertainty principle be violated prior to this or failing that how does the uncertainty principle arise from a universe hat did not have it to begin with?