is space/time a sort of wave?

Question

could the big bang have been a "bounce"? where space/time reaches a tip of existence at a point of virtual zero, then, reflecting back in a semi-spherical or cone shaped expansion process we see today. would that solve the mathematical problems with the singularity by nullifying it?
could our perception of time and space then be a 'shadow' of a fourth dimention? like the 2d shadow cast by a 3d object.

or am i completely off my rocker? if so, can you explain why this wouldn't work.

gene, what is the current supported theory? i hear things like the black hole singularity that can spawn new alternate "big bangs" and ive heard the continuous 'big crunch/big bang' theory, but it seems there is no accepted theory yet.

Answer 1

You could be right about the shadow. i read Universe in a nutshell by Hawking and he says that it is possible.

Suppose you have a straw and you see it from a distance. The three dimensional straw appears one dimensional. Maybe we are considering a many dimensional space time to be four dimensional because we are not being able to recongnise the apparently absent dimensions.

Answer 2

There some theories and models around to explain some waves of higher or lesser concentration of "nothing" that climaxed by coincidence into the Big Bang. Those theories and models are a method to fill the "void" in scientific explanation to the following unanswered questions:
- What triggered the Big Bang?
- What was before the Bang?
- How could the Big Bang generate energy and matter out of nothing, without conflicting with the basic laws of physics?
- Why did the densely packed matter immediately after singularity not collapse into a Black Hole ?

Science has no proved answers - so new models and theories will be invented.
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Answer 3

The first space-time pulse that launched the universe was a quantum entity of minimum size and duration.
This pulse expanded radially evolving into the universe we see to-day.
Being a quantum entity it had a minimum size so it must have a maximum size also. It must be finite,a beginning and and an end.
Each entity in existence is isolated in time,when you see a person in the room with you,you are seeing them as they were billionths of a second in the past.
The universe injects a holographic aspect that allows us to interact as if no isolation exists.
It's tenths of a second with people,billionths of a second with fundamental particles and millions of years with celestial bodies.
The uncertainty principle is an obvious result of this isolation.
Your zero time could be construed as the stripping of a single dimension of space from your three dimensions.

Answer 4

It is not a wave. Time and space came into being at the same time, when the energy that was created in the big band condenced into matter that was the key to time and space beginning. Matter now introduced movement and the intervals between movement is time, space was created when electromagnetic waves came into the picture, that is what makes space differ from the vacuum of the void.

Answer 5

The Big bang seems very invalid to me, beside the so-called proofs. Actually if one looks at the supporting facts (not proofs actually) he will se that they support other assumptions too, not just Big Bang. So, I would say no, not a wave at all.

Answer 6

There's nothing that supports your idea but tons of data that supports the events predicted by the current theory. You seem to be on the short end of the stick.

Answer 7

I wonder what you might mean by space/time.