I don't understand the mathematics of cosmology completely.

[MineralMan]

3. There are a few people working hard on that.

Last edited Mon May 20, 2019, 02:41 PM - Edit history (1)

The problem appears to be that everything breaks down that we think we know at that precise moment.

Perhaps our actual mathematics and the principles of physics no longer are in force at that moment. Perhaps they are actually unique to this universe. That's what some think and are proposing. Perhaps there is an infinity of universes we will never be able to even detect, each with its own constants and physics. How fascinating!

Perhaps mathematics itself is a construct of our particular universe, along with quantum mechanics. Perhaps our constants are only constants in this universe. Maybe our universe is an anomaly among universes. That's the fascination with that moment when the universe came into existence. We don't know. And maybe we cannot know. And that would be equally interesting.

But, here we are, in a universe we understand only partially. From there, we are trying to look back to its very beginning. What a challenge!

But, God did it. Yeah, that's the ticket...