[Michael Barnes]

A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.

The discovery comes from studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), light emitted when the Universe was just 400,000 years old.

Their model may help explain why we experience time moving in a straight line from yesterday into tomorrow.

[Michael Barnes]

Interesting read...

[Soliton]

Ping

[scooter2]

Here’s fifty cents. Go call someone who cares.

[theDentist]

I always had this theory that the universe would expand (big bang) and then somehow collapse to the infinite, then explode again to it’s limits, contract again etc. To me, that is God’s Heartbeat. Maybe I was right... now the scientists have to work out the fuzzy details...

[vimto]

I am reminded of the Monty Python sketch where a scientist has a fragment of bone but has no problem constructing a massive Dinosaur from it.

[DManA]

It’s almost easier to grasp a place before time and space then it is to imagine what’s it must be like inside the heads of guys that think this stuff up.

[DManA]

"Every time you break an egg or spill a glass of water, you're learning about the Big Bang," Professor Carroll explained.

Seems to me life is exempt from the Second Law. In order to have an egg to break some animal had to organize random elements into an organized structure of the egg.

[pabianice]

Not everyone.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Quix!

alas, already posted:

Hints of ‘time before Big Bang’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm
Posted on 06/06/2008 12:52:23 PM PDT by chessplayer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027262/posts

-related, in reverse chrono-

History Channel - The Universe - Before the Big Bang
February 25, 2008 | Chuck Plante - aka backtothestreets
Posted on 02/25/2008 1:30:39 PM PST by backtothestreets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976091/posts

Echoes from Before the Big Bang May Be Inaudible
Scientific American | July 1, 2007 | JR Minkel
Posted on 07/01/2007 9:37:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1859444/posts

Time Before Time [speculative cosmology]
Seed Magazine | August 28, 2006 | Sean Carroll
Posted on 08/30/2006 1:01:48 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692401/posts

Probing Question: What happened before the Big Bang?
Pennsylvania State University | 03 August 2006 | Barbara Kennedy
Posted on 08/04/2006 4:26:21 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1677590/posts

The universe before it began
Seed Magazine | 5/22/06 | Maggie Wittlin
Posted on 05/24/2006 3:59:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637759/posts

What Was Here Before the Beginning? [Big Bang, Cosmology]
RedNova.com | 06 January 2005 | Martin Rees & Helen Matsos
Posted on 01/06/2005 5:29:32 PM PST by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315656/posts

Questioning the Big Bang
MSNBC.com | 4/25/02 | By Alan Boyle
Posted on 04/25/2002 2:34:20 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672878/posts

Before the Big Bang
Source: New Scientist
Published: May 20, 2000 Author: New Scientist
Posted on 06/05/2000 15:04:22 PDT by Sol Taibi
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a393c23e60d10.htm

-and-

From the present to the past [Stephen Hawking]
PhysicsWeb | 30 June 2006 | Staff
Posted on 07/04/2006 4:29:06 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660121/posts

No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New Model
Physorg.com | January 30, 2007 | University of North Carolina
Posted on 02/03/2007 7:49:37 AM PST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778588/posts

Forget the Big Bang Theory
OnPoint Radio | Thursday, May 31, 2007 | host Tom Ashbrook
Posted on 06/08/2007 12:11:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1847168/posts

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Well, duh......God was SOMEWHERE when He pushed the plunger......