From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 22:02:20 MDT
Damien writes
> >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.
I wasn't aware that it's generally accepted that only nothing
existed before 10^-43. I would have thought that something
existed between the big bang and 10^-43, else maybe we're off
in our estimate of when it happened after all?
Guth's diagrams in his book, "Inflation", for example, show
earlier times, but I couldn't actually *find* references in
the text to anything earlier, so maybe you're right.
I forgot to mention that the civilizations of that era, (namely
circa 10^-2,100,000) had dark legends of a much, much earlier time,
where God-like entities evidently existed who seemed to be able
to alter some of the laws of physics at will. Like, say the God-
like ones (using your correction) appeared to have existed between
10^-42.99999999998103006917 and 10^-42.99999999998103006801,
which, while it seems rather a short time indeed, was incredibly
long subjectively because of the enormous speed of their thought
processes. :-P
It would be interesting if anyone ever proves such fantasies
impossible, (perhaps by showing that information flow across
any spatial dimension is limited somehow before a certain
time after the big bang).
Lee
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