[Alpha Kodiak]

[quote]Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:

The Big Bang theory really doesn't explain creation, since there must have been something in order for it to explode. It is entirely conceivable that part of the act of creation was a "Big Bang", but there must have been something that existed prior to it, whether an intelligence or not.

Unless time was also created by the Big Bang. Then there would be no "before".

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Given the relativistic nature of time, I would not disagree with you. Still, the Big Bang does not address the origins of itself. Even if time originated in the Big Bang (a distinct possibility), something had to start the process.

A side question: for a photon travelling at the speed of light, does time pass at all? I know that time "slows down" as you approach the speed of light, but I am not sure what happens to time at the speed of light.