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To: spodefly
But, if at one point in the distant past, before the big bang, everything was condensed into a tiny area, how far out into space will I have to look to see the time when everything was not actually farther out in space, but was condensed into a tiny area?

You can't, you run out of time before you run out of space, at last estimation.

96 posted on 09/24/2004 11:57:02 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal
But, if at one point in the distant past, before the big bang, everything was condensed into a tiny area, how far out into space will I have to look to see the time when everything was not actually farther out in space, but was condensed into a tiny area?

You can't, you run out of time before you run out of space, at last estimation.

So, you are saying either that space started before time started, which doesn't sound possible, or that there was an empty 'buffer space' surrounding the condensed matter before the big bang? If the latter is true, how will we ever have any idea how old the universe is, because there will be no reference for how long the 'buffer space' existed before the big bang happened? Also, why would that empty 'buffer space' have expanded outward and retained its emptiness after the big bang? Wouldn't it have been filled with matter from the big bang, and then started expanding?

103 posted on 09/24/2004 12:11:58 PM PDT by spodefly (A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
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