(Graytown) wrote

But I just can't help thinking that time had to exist before the
bang took place and whatever that thing was that exploded had to take
shape and form much before. If so, time really goes back a long way
before the big bang and so does the Universe. And technically, this
equation could go on till Infinity... which is the real kicker because
it practically means that nobody will ever know how it all began. Am I
making sense or simply missing something?

Yep, this a problem of logical regression that has been around a
long time, is not limited to scientific paradigms, and has led to
various theological excursions such as "first cause" and "it's
turtles all the way down." Modern variants are steady-state/cascading
cosmologies that have, for example, universes like ours popping out
of nowhere as a result of quantum fluctuations in some sort of
Ueberspace. But where did Ueberspace come from? Ueberueberspace?
And where... you see the problem.

Basically, nobody has a clue, and it's very hard even to imagine what
a clue concerning this problem of regression would look like.

Me, I like the turtles.