I'm awful when it comes to actual mathematical computations, but because of a sci-fi story I've been writing I've been trying to understand the concepts of the ways that matter moves around. My questions have brought me to this forum and coincidentally, the story relates directly to this thread, so I had to register to beg for some clarification...
Proposal:
"The other globe is the same universe, just earlier in time."
Cavediver:
"This sounds so reasonable and believable, that it is so hard to convey the fact that it just doesn't make sense You cannot progress through the singularity to "earlier in time". If you do bolt on an extra globe, you have no guarentee that its time is before our time, is after our time, or is totally seperate from out time. The "neck" radically changes the geometry (and topology) to ensure that progress backwards before t=0 is well defined."
This is the part I'm not clear on. It's like your saying that since no one is in the woods to hear the tree fall, it doesn't make a sound. Now if, by some miracle, the big crunch does happen, then just because all living things will die during or before it doesn't mean that time won't go on does it? Doesn't time exist even if we're not here to observe it?
Appreciate any replies here.
This message has been edited by Caravaggio, 08-21-2005 01:44 PM
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