THE BIG BANG—“THE TIME AT WHICH WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE UNIVERSE WAS DOING”. My first post on this blog was about the Big Bang. In it, I marveled about the evidence we had for the Big Bang. In this article, Ross Pomeroy expresses a helpful caution about what we know about the Big Bang: “The simple fact is that physicists aren’t certain exactly how the Universe began, or even if it did.”
Pomeroy gives some alternative scenarios: “After all, the primordial Universe could have counterintuitively ‘popped’ into being from nothing at all. Or perhaps it existed eternally in another nascent form? Maybe it oozed out of some higher dimension? Heck, as science fiction author Douglas Adams [THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE] imagined, it could easily have been sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.”
“It’s the time at which we don’t understand what the Universe was doing.”