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Thread #70797 Message #1749457
Posted By: Wolfgang
29-May-06 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: What Do Physicists Think About?? IV
Subject: RE: BS: What Do Physicists Think About?? IV
What was before the Big Bang?
Some physicists consider that a metaphysical question that should not be asked and studied by science. Other physicists try to find an answer to that question:
Roughly: There was no Big Bang, but 'only' a Big Bounce when a previous universe collapsed and bounced back into becoming our universe. They think that not all information about the former universe may have been lost in the Big Bounce.