Psience Quest

Mind-Bending Study Suggests Time Did Actually Exist Before The Big Bang

MIKE MCRAE in Sciencealert.com
25 DEC 2018

Quote:Taking a slightly different approach, physicists Tim A. Koslowski, Flavio Mercati, and David Sloan have come up with a new model, pointing out that the breakdown arises from a contradiction in properties at a particular point in time as defined by general relativity.

What the theorem doesn't imply is how the Universe as we observe it necessarily gets to that point in the first place.

Stepping back from the whole singularity issue, the researchers reinterpreted the existing model of shrinking space by distinguishing the map of space-time itself from the 'stuff' in it. (...)

While the idea of a flipped Universe is old news, the approach of working around the singularity problem in this particular way is novel.

"We introduce no new principles, and make no modifications to Einstein's theory of general relativity – only of the interpretation that is put upon objects," said Sloan.

The research article in question is here:
Through the big bang: Continuing Einstein's equations beyond a cosmological singularity

Very cool to think we may dig deeper past the supposed origin point and gain new physics knowledge...

 But isn't this a matter of course?

"Before" being the operative word, doesn't this have to be true given we speak of a time before the Big Bang?