Fiction writer with question on Big Bang and Time

[walrusman]

Please forgive me because I absolutely know squat on this subject...

 

Are there any theories involving the shockwave from the big bang and time?

 

It sounds interesting to find a way to link our present time to some other point in time after the shockwave...like some weird reverse evolution or something.

 

Or, do scientists still belive in this shockwave? What do they say is supposed to happen?

 

For those who've seen my other post under biology, yes, this pertains to the same story.

[Dr. Dalek]

I don't know, but let me know when you publish.

[Sisyphus]

I'm not sure what you mean. What kind of a theory are you talking about? "Linking" how?

[ajb]

There maybe gravitational waves that originate from the early universe. They are predicted in General Relativity. Here are some experiments trying to detect them

 

http://lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/

 

The relativity group at cardiff also do a lot of gravitational wave astronomy

 

http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/relativity/

 

Also have a look at the archive

 

http://www-spires.dur.ac.uk/cgi-bin/spiface/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+T+GRAVITational+waves

 

however, you will see that here is 1637 papers. So it is an active area of research.

[walrusman]

I'm not sure what you mean. What kind of a theory are you talking about? "Linking" how?

 

I was just throwing that out as an example. Was just wondering how time is affected by the big bang, if at all, and how the aftershock might change it.

 

I like to make things as believable as possible, so I figure if it's believable to scientists, then it should be believable to the common reader. And I think real science is far more interesting and unpredictable than imaginary science.

 

So, I was just curious about any theories floating around out there that involve the big bang and time, that perhaps I could study and use. I would love to share more, but I can't. It's one of those things...

 

 

 

And thank you AJB, I will look at those links throughout the day today!

 

Dr. Dalek - I would love to get published and will certainly let you know. Thanks for your interest.

[walrusman]

Ok, I don't think I'm grasping space-time correctly. When they talk about ripples in space-time, what does that mean to the objects caught up in these ripples?

 

I mean, if someone was at point A at the crest of a ripple, and someone else was at point B, at the base of that ripple, do they experience time differently? Or if point B was at the crest of another ripple, how would time effect the two points then?