Time comparison

[Sayonara]

I was rather hoping with my cake analogy that you'd catch the relationship between theory of relative space, and recipe for cake.

 

I suppose I could have been more explicit.

[Mart]

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It's an interesting analogy. It suggests to me that a unique event happened called the invention of "cake" the like of which had never happened previously.

 

Sounds like a version of the big bang theory. It has a lot going for it : people who are credited with being the authors of such are deemed to be "gods" or at least favoured by GOD. A sort of echo of the GOD who some believe authored (I like that word) our universe ( and maybe lots of others if he/she/it was into cookery).

[Sayonara]

It's not so much that it had never happened previously, but that it was not - as I mentioned earlier - reported in the correct (or possibly any) fashion.

 

Like JaKiri said, we can't really consider something that is not known.

[Mart]

we can't really consider something that is not known.

 

What is not known becomes known by the process of consideration. It has to be knowable of course. Consideration is shorthand for a whole host of activities.

[Sayonara]

That means nothing in the context of this discussion.

[Severian]

OK - so the universe started out non-homogeneous. It would seem difficult for a singularity (the thing that got "banged"), to be non-homogeneous would it not? Wouldn't all the non-homogeneity have been "squeezed" out the singularity by definition? I guess the question is: where did the non-homogeneity come from? How would it arise from a homogeneous singularity?

 

Yes, this is a big problem with the big bang. Having said that, it would have been worse if the inhomogeneities were absent.

[Mart]

Yes, this is a big problem with the big bang. Having said that, it would have been worse if the inhomogeneities were absent.

Could asymmetrical behaviour have emerged some time after the singularity? I thought that a singularity (whatever that is or isn't) is where and when spacetime doesn't exist. That's a bummer for scientists because they can't say anything about it - but I expect they won't stop trying.