From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 21:21:28 MDT
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> ### This raises interesting questions - how did the
> topology of the Universe
> arise from the singularity? Is the initial condition
> truly pointlike, or is
> it a manifold or other structure with more complex
> spatial organization?
According to mathematician Roy Kerr, black holes
inevitably crush down into rings. I had assumed this
was applicable to the big bang, but can find no
evidence either for or against this on a google search
right now.
There's also string theorists who say that that in the
universe broke apart from 10-dimensional to 4
dimensional at the big bang, so a point might not make
sense here.
> How
> can we try to deduce its features?
>
> Rafal
by funding higher-energy particle accelerators to
study what happens when quantum effects completely
take over as would be the case in the first few
moments of the big-bang. Right now any insights are
just mathematical quirks.
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