RE: Nature Article

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 20:19:09 MDT


At 09:11 PM 8/17/02 -0700, Lee wrote:

>Here is my idea from about 30 years ago. I was always marveling
>at the Big Ideas and Big Conceptions about extremely tiny times
>following the big bang. That is, there was the Planck Time at
>10^-43 seconds, and later on there was Guth's inflation time that
>kicks in at 10^-37 seconds and so on.
>
>So I wrote a brief history of a civilization that flourished
>between 10^-2,103,000 and 10^-2,000,505

Cool. But wouldn't that have to be between, say, 10^-41.2103000 and
10^-41.2000505 seconds? By hypothesis, there's nothing to work with prior
to the Planck Time.

Damien Broderick



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