Before The Big Bang

[poliphilo]

According to Horizon it's no longer scientifically illiterate to wonder what happened before the Big Bang. A convenor asked a room full of mega brains, "Who believes there was something before the Big Bang?" and every hand went up- though some only to half mast. There are many theories to be considered. The one that sticks with me- probably because its so simple- is that the universe expands, contracts and expands again- like breathing in and out. 

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[ccord.livejournal.com]

When reading Augustine's Confessions a year or two ago, I remember being surprised when he began writing of this very issue -- how one can essentially, through reason, establish logical priority but not phenomenal, affective priority regarding "events" "before time". But, he also noted that the restrictions of language always cause one to talk about timeless events as if the were temporal, thus inviting confusion.