Did Time Start at the Big Bang?

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davidwf · 2021-01 · Strong recommendation

I keep a Google Document of these to share just in case people ask about my YouTube interests. I Actually Watched All of Them I have actually watched ALL of the videos on these channels and I don’t even feel bad about it :-) I actually like new videos from some of the ones below (like NativLang, for example) but they maybe don’t hold up in the early videos. - Space Time: PBS Physics, sooo good -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [VIDEO] - Lindsay Ellis: Really, really intelligent video essays about film and culture -- [LINK] -- Great First Video: [LINK] - Periodic Videos: Chemistry, including a video for every element -- [LINK] -- Great first video (obviously): [LINK] Other Math and Science - 3Blue1Brown: Amazing math visualizations -- [LINK] -- Great first video, how e^pi*i works: [LINK] - NumberPhile: Fun math videos -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [LINK] - PBS Eons: Biology! -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [LINK] - PBS Infinite Series: Math math math, really really hard math -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [LINK] - SciShow: Science! More poppy but fun -- [LINK] -- Silly first show: [LINK] -- Actual physics: [LINK] - VSauce: Science-y? -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [LINK] - Practical Engineering: -- [LINK] -- Great first video: [LINK] Other Humanities - Alliterative: Connections via language -- [LINK] -- Great first video about gin and gimlets: [LINK] - Bon Appetit: Such fun food stuff! -- Gourmet Makes: [LINK] -- It’s Alive: [LINK] - Masaman: Genetics and human migration (an

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irjustin · 2024-04 · Reference

> Well, no. The density in the observed universe is used to extrapolate the number of galaxies in the non-observed universe. The size of that universe is extrapolated from the rate of expansion and the time since the big bang. > We may not know the exact size at the start, but we know it was infinitesimally smaller than it is today. So the size of the initial universe isn't a big factor in the equations about how big it likely is today. Weather it started as a few centimeters across or a few thousand light years across, both are functionally zero compared to the current size. Most things you're saying are correctly rooted except for what's beyond the observable universe. I'm not sure why the staunch belief that you can confidently claim this. To be clear, you aren't provably wrong - likewise not provably right either. The replies to you are just fine, they represent a significant portion of the scientific community that says our universe is likely infinitely big and that, possibly, the big bang was infinitely small, yet still, still infinitely large. An infinite expanding into infinite still results not knowing what's out there. PBS Space time talks about it in terms of "scale factor"[0] instead of absolute diameter. Still, these are all debatable theories, so your take _could_ be valid, but generally, it points infinitely large. [0] [VIDEO]

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bb88 · 2023-07 · Reference

> wouldn't it make more sense that time actually stretches infinitely the further back we go, thus nullifying the concept of a beginning? Matt from PBS space time covered this here. [VIDEO]

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