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mmustapic • today at 8:31 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It didn’t expand from a point, it expanded at the same time from everywhere. Other things could have happened before that expansion, but currently there’s no way to know.


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nakedneuron • today at 9:17 AM

My hunch is, it's the inside of a giant black hole and expansion we perceive is new matter falling into that void. The start of our universe is just when the outside thing collapsed into a black hole. So it's probably recursions all the way up.

I could never wrap my mind around "point-like" entities, like BHs supposed to be, and after all before BH collapse we have something like neutron stars.. extremely dense matter, kind of a perfect crystal ball made of a strange kind of matter.

So in my view BHs are just that, except you have that informational isolation layer (EH) that allows this giant crystal computer to crunch its quantum computations ad infinitum, simulating an endless array of possible universes.

Mind-boggling.. I'm in awe.

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po1nt • today at 9:19 AM

It doesn't make sense that time has a 0 or at least we approach 0, but space doesn't. We can extrapolate a point when time started, but we can't to that with space as it always was this big. I'm leaning more towards timescape cosmology where we could assume the time is not homogenous in space.