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mindwalker_i

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Thu Apr-22-10 12:04 AM
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12. Time may also have been "created" with the big bang

If that's the case, the question of what existed before the big bang or what has always existed (a.k.a the hypothetical invisible friend) is meaningless. Given that time passes more slowly in gravitational fields, it must not pass at all in the infinitely dense pre-big-bang state of the universe.

There are actually some serious people asking whether time is just a persistent illusion but does not, in fact, exist. That still puts it on sturdier ground in terms of evidence than God.

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