Subj : The universe
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : DAVE OLDRIDGE
Date : Sun Nov 05 2000 06:05 am

JW> -=> TODD HENSON wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-

JW>  >  >  TH> ...If the
JW>  >  >  TH> universe had a beginning, then it is perfectly rational to 
wonder
JW>  >  >  TH> about what came before it.

JW>  If at some time you began to love your wife, where was your love before
JW>  that happened? That the kind of argument here; you use the word "rational"
JW>  as if it were appropriate.

JW>  If the universe had a begining, that begining was the very start of
JW>  that before which there was nothing.

Not necessarily.  The world has a North pole, but there is nothing 
north of it.

And I'm not being facetious here.  Time-space does seem to focus on a 
singularity that we refer to as "the beginning" and we see copious 
astronomical evidence in support of this.  If this model is correct, then 
"before" the Big Bang is about as meaningless as "north of the North Pole."

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