Time existed before the Big Bang

Time is fundamental, space is not

According to the idea of the block universe, the passage of time is an illusion. The past, present and future all coexist, along with space, in one big frozen block in which nothing ever happens. But the emergence of life and the existence of genuine novelty in our corner of the cosmos contradict this picture. The passage of time is not an illusion, it’s a fundamental aspect of reality, something that existed before even The Big Bang. By studying the nature of novelty, the life sciences could help us prove time fundamentalism, argues Lee Cronin.

 

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Hafinizam Nor Azmi 8 March 2023

Time is always started with The Big Bang. Otherwise, we will have to accept something that we called infinite regression. We will keep searching the one singular point of everything simply because we are using zero as our point. And zero means nothing. How do we expect nothingness to help us to find our universe origin?