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by -O-uknow on June 15th, 2008

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What was the size of the cosmic egg singularity before the Big Bang?

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  • by yeroco on June 17th, 2008

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    If it really was a singularity (not possible by current quantum theory), its size was zero.

    Bottom line is that no one really knows what happened or how the Universe looked at "time zero", let alone before the big bang. It's not even clear that such a concept as "before" is even possible; time as we know it may have started with the the big bang and did not exist before time zero.

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    • Absolutely correct. There are speculations about what came before the Big Bang, and newspapers publish them with the same weight as they publish articles exotic but well documented events after the BB. But the fact is that these are just interesting speculations. The relativity theory that explains the expansion of the universe very well breaks down when quantum effects become significant very close to the BB.

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      by Im Alec has abandoned this account on June 17th, 2008

    • No, I don't think it could ever have been zero.

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      by purplecows on July 13th, 2010

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