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Whatever thing you are referring to, it cannot be the singularity.
OK looks like we need to do baby steps with you then. If there was no singularity little soup thingie (sorry if I get technical) then do you claim the universe would still have expanded? One assumes that what expanded was that little hot soup, no? Otherwise what was it exactly?
The singularity is not the "hot soup". The hot soup is the Universe. The Universe was not the singularity.
The singularity isn't some thing that exists. As I've been saying, think of it like an asymptote.
As the Universe approaches it, the Universe gets hotter and denser. But the Universe never actually gets there.
Here is the plot of 1/X (we'll only use the positive portion):
Starting at (1,1); as we keep going to the left towards the y-axis, the value of the function keeps getting larger and larger. As X
approaches zero, the function
approaches infinity. But if you ask what happens
at zero, then the function becomes undefined. You can't divide by zero.
That's kinda like how in the Big Bang Theory, as we go closer towards the beginning then it gets hotter and denser. But the Universe does not exist at the point of the singularity, it doesn't come from the singularity, it never was the singularity, the singularity never burped it out.
Does that make sense?
The universe then had to be real small to expand. So what does a singularity have to do with it if it was not from the hot soup singularity it expanded? You think the hot soup was just an observer on the sidelines?
Obviously not, because I keep repeating that the singularity is not a thing that can do stuff.
You're basically asking what the y-axis has to do to get the value of the function 1/X to appear from it at an infinite value.
So talk. We can keep in mind it is a fairy tale and you admit not knowing.
I am talking. Start comprehending.
I don't care if you reject the Big Bang theory or not. But I am going to correct your mischaracterizations of it.
So the teensie hot soup was not a singularity?
No, it was not. The "soup" is the Universe. At no point in time does it exist as the singularity.
It was what, just the little non thing the whole universe came from?
The universe didn't come from it. It isn't a thing. It doesn't do stuff. Stuff doesn't come from it.
Because creation is where the universe came from so obviously there was no time here before that! You can say it was the hot soup that was here, but you admit not really knowing. Many call that religion.
Unfortunately, I don't share in your opinion that being a religion (is some derogatory place that) can be used to cast insults against my opponent's position (that I only think resembles being one), so your insult fell flat. But I am curious what you think is so bad about being a religion that you feel like you can tarnish my position with being one?
I have religious beliefs.
What the Big Bang Theory says (in layman's terms) is not one of them.