• nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    It’s not so much that we know there was nothing before it, but that we can’t figure out what was before it.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      No, in our current best-supported model of the universe (Lambda-CDM) the concept of “before” the Big Bang is meaningless. It is the apex of the spacetime “bell” from which everything emerged.

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        4 months ago

        But something must have triggered the big bang. The model might not support this, but this only means the model is insufficient to describe what goes beyond our known universe.

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          4 months ago

          But something must have triggered the big bang.

          That’s a separate claim you’d have to prove. We have no evidence of something triggering it, we don’t even know that it would need to be triggered. All of our observations occur inside this universe, therefore we have no idea at all if cause-and-effect even applies to the universe as a whole. The short answer is: we don’t know and have no reason to posit the need for something else.

          What does it mean for something to be “beyond” everywhere or before time?

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          4 months ago

          That’s a philosophical question, not a scientific one, since it’s by definition beyond the ability of science to answer. It suffers from the infinite regress problem which many people invoke God to solve (the uncaused cause) but that’s not very satisfying, is it?

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        4 months ago

        It is incoherent that sonething could suddenly exist out of nothingness.

        Clearly the universe does not exist, this is all an elaborate statistical artifact.

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      4 months ago

      Seems like a distinction without a difference, I sort of assumed the OP meant that is all I mean. We don’t know anything before the beginning after all. Like you said.