Originally Posted By: Bill S.
Originally Posted By: Bill
Maybe before the big bang there was an infinitely long period of nothingness, just empty space.


That's an interesting concept, Bill.

I shall have to give the idea of infinite nothingness some more thought before commenting, but, surely, if the period before the BB was infinite, everything that could happen would have already happened, an infinite number of times, before the BB. These things would, of necessity, have included the BB; so there is a paradox.

No paradox. A big bang could have happened an infinite number of times before the one with which we are familiar. And after entropy washes our Big Bang out into the "nothingness" of the infinity of time again it can happen again and again. The in between times could just be filled with the quantum foam.

Notice that I am not saying that this does happen. I am saying that there is no particular paradox involved. It is just a fact that we don't understand the Big Bang and how the universe came about and/or where the it came from.

Bill Gill

C is not the speed of light in a vacuum.
C is the universal speed limit.