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To: sm1th who wrote (14730)4/5/2012 2:11:54 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 85487
 
I have never seen any credible explanation of the conditions immediately before te big bang.

And you likely never will. We can't observe anything before the cosmic microwave background radiation which was created a few hundred thousand years after the big bang (not as microwaves but as much more energetic photons which have been red-shifted to microwaves since then) .

And by one common interpretation of the big bang, time started with the big bang, so there was no before the big bang.



To: sm1th who wrote (14730)4/5/2012 7:40:55 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
<<The big bang might have simply been a vacuum fluxuation.

Or it might not have been. I have never seen any credible explanation of the conditions immediately before te big bang.>>

Do you know what a credible explanation would be?

What do you think it would be?


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