Proven with what? Our grasp of physics can only let us understand what probably happened minutes after the Big Bang occured. According to this model, complete removal of information occurs at the end of the cycle, or aeon, when black holes evaporate and the universe returns into a pristine state, just like a blank slate.
Milliseconds, not minutes, but yeah. At about t+4ms, the strong forces came into existence. Before that, the math completely falls apart, and we have no idea what was happening. We don't even know if time itself was constant, and as we percieve it those first 4ms could have taken a billion years or more.
This isn't, by any stretch, a new idea, though. It's very similar to the Hindu/Buddhist cosmologies, which have been around for thousands of years. Sure, the hindus do use the notion of Brahma and the Manus to explain the passing of cycles, but both faiths teach that the universe goes through an infinite cycle of expansion, stability, and collapse, and that time goes off into infinite in either direction from here. This scientist's "new idea"? It's been around for at least 5,000 years.
My parents are token Hindus and associate with a lot of other snobby holier-than-thou Hindus who don't really know much about their own religion (of course, I notice the parallels to some Christians in the country [USA]). What you're saying is tantamount to saying western medicine lags behind eastern medicine. Eastern medicine, specifically India's Ayurvedic recommendations, stress yoga [yes, irony, I get it]. Stretching and deep breathing during a period of relaxation, in other words a time to not be stressed out, causes a drop in blood pressure among other things. However, yoga explains it in relation to the body's "chakras" (chakra in most modern Indian languages means circle). Where are these circles? None of it is scientifically rigorous. If I claim without proof that aliens exist somewhere, and then 100000 years later, we discover them, will you credit me? "This scientist's 'new idea'? It's been around for at least 100000 years." Please.
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Milliseconds, not minutes, but yeah. At about t+4ms, the strong forces came into existence. Before that, the math completely falls apart, and we have no idea what was happening. We don't even know if time itself was constant, and as we percieve it those first 4ms could have taken a billion years or more.
This isn't, by any stretch, a new idea, though. It's very similar to the Hindu/Buddhist cosmologies, which have been around for thousands of years. Sure, the hindus do use the notion of Brahma and the Manus to explain the passing of cycles, but both faiths teach that the universe goes through an infinite cycle of expansion, stability, and collapse, and that time goes off into infinite in either direction from here. This scientist's "new idea"? It's been around for at least 5,000 years.
My parents are token Hindus and associate with a lot of other snobby holier-than-thou Hindus who don't really know much about their own religion (of course, I notice the parallels to some Christians in the country [USA]). What you're saying is tantamount to saying western medicine lags behind eastern medicine. Eastern medicine, specifically India's Ayurvedic recommendations, stress yoga [yes, irony, I get it]. Stretching and deep breathing during a period of relaxation, in other words a time to not be stressed out, causes a drop in blood pressure among other things. However, yoga explains it in relation to the body's "chakras" (chakra in most modern Indian languages means circle). Where are these circles? None of it is scientifically rigorous. If I claim without proof that aliens exist somewhere, and then 100000 years later, we discover them, will you credit me? "This scientist's 'new idea'? It's been around for at least 100000 years." Please.