What Happened Before the Big Bang?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vdkmj/hori...

Granted, it's a bit sad that I'm watching this on a warm Friday night.

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Did any of you watch it?

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As a summary, there were two ideas (proven by lots of squiggly lines, complex maths and copious amounts of chalk):
-everything came together and bounced apart (no bang)
-everything is on two membranes that intersected

I was slightly traumatised by it as I did maths at uni and it reminded me of stuff that I sometimes have nightmares about and dream that I'm not understanding wtf is going on as I'm sitting in the lecture theatre with some maths professor waving his hands around, scribbling things on the blackboard and doing a lot of .

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threespires said:

jmorgan said:

The big suck?

That would be my guess too

Stop guessing. Well, unless it's backed up by something complicated that scares me.

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jmorgan said:

OK. What if it has always existed and always will and we are missing a bit of the puzzle to see this.

Complete and ulster cobblers probably based on pure speculation but I guarantee you none of it came from the Daily Mail. That has to count for something.

I'd say you might as well ignore it unless it came from the mouth of a theoretical physics professor.

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jmorgan said:

Just printing off my qualifications now.

That's the easy bit. It's writing equations that make sense to very clever people that's the tricky bit.

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jmorgan said:

Nah, use the internet to cadge it all together. No one will notice. I will wear hat at a jaunty angle as well to give a bit mystery and no one will question me.

Someone somewhere will know enough to call you out.

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I think I need a whoosh parrot. You've all discussed this programme in another thread, haven't you?

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It's quite funny, everyone spouting their own ideas on this thread without responding to my post. This is the Religion! forum, right?

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Some Gump said:

Hoofy said:

It's quite funny, everyone spouting their own ideas on this thread without responding to my post. This is the Religion! forum, right?

Your post doesn't ask a question, therefore what is your issue?

Unless the question is the title, in which case everyone knows it's "the big foreplay".

There is no question. It's the title of the programme. I thought you lot would find it interesting.

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Prof Prolapse said:

Hoofy read this;



I promise it's a well written book which doesn't put you to sleep, and it summarises the state of understanding very well.

You may however be dissapointed to learn that the answer to your specific question is pretty short... And is included in the title...

So is the link I posted bks then?

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Prof Prolapse said:

That book specifically talks through the universe from it's beginning to it's end.

Wait. WHAT?