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AZPaul3
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Message 324 of 405 (454740)
02-08-2008 2:16 PM
Reply to: Message 322 by cavediver
02-08-2008 12:01 PM


Peanuts and The Big Bang
I like peanuts . salted. Let me be your foil to untangle the situation so the rest of us peanut nuts get the real story straight.
My understanding .
Our equations tell us that at some time T0+10^-40something seconds everything was crunched into a zero dimensional point of infinite energy, infinite gravity. Since this is a nonsensical condition it indicates a hole in our understanding of physics at these extreme conditions. We call this a singularity so we can communicate the condition we are talking about, but, it is not a real physical thing as far as we can tell. We are NOT saying that the universe was spawned from a singularity. We ARE saying that at this point we cannot say what was happening.

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