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2007-07-03 Science & Technology

What happened BEFORE the BIG BANG? (new twist from Penn State)

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Posted by 3dc 2007-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 It's obvious...

Before the BIG BANG was the BIG PAPER BAG BLOWUP.

Posted by Adriane 2007-07-03 02:45|| 2007-07-03 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought it was the Big Belch when God finished the last beer in the Divine Six Pack and got bored.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-07-03 03:41|| 2007-07-03 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Trick or Treat?

Posted by RD 2007-07-03 03:47|| 2007-07-03 03:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, it's not as if the yotta-tons of matter currently occupying spacetime some 20 billion light years across just popped out of nowhere. Our universe is most likely another iteration of the one preceding it. The only significant difference may lie in how our's just happens to have the right blend of cosmological constants that allows for extreme longevity.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-03 04:55|| 2007-07-03 04:55|| Front Page Top

#5 I knew it. We are just a cosmic burp.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-03 07:46|| 2007-07-03 07:46|| Front Page Top

#6 The Big Foreplay?

Posted by ed 2007-07-03 07:57|| 2007-07-03 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 The Big Match lighting the Big Fuse.

Posted by Mike 2007-07-03 08:21|| 2007-07-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 This brings to question if our own Universe can be wiped out the same way, replaced with another? And if so, is there some way to prove it was Cosmic Warming that caused the last Universe destruction?

Posted by Charles 2007-07-03 08:33|| 2007-07-03 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Beware the coming of the great white handkerchief!

Thank the mega goat (PBUH)

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-07-03 09:02|| 2007-07-03 09:02|| Front Page Top

#10 The Great Bubba than said "here, hold my beer and watch this"

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-07-03 09:40|| 2007-07-03 09:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Does this mean we're just the result of an enormous and misfiring 1939 Ford V-8? Oh Henry!

Posted by Halliburton - Leftist Irritating Commutation Division 2007-07-03 10:46|| 2007-07-03 10:46|| Front Page Top

#12 And if so, is there some way to prove it was Cosmic Warming that caused the last Universe destruction?

More likely Cosmic Cooling, also known as entropy.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-03 11:18|| 2007-07-03 11:18|| Front Page Top

#13 "new details about the properties of a quantum state as it travels through the Big Bounce, which replaces the classical idea of a Big Bang as the beginning of our universe,"

I knew that if this came from Penn State, it would have something to do with football.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-07-03 11:51|| 2007-07-03 11:51|| Front Page Top

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