What if the first instant is undefined?

Question

With powerful telescopes we zoom past the first galaxies, to a time everything was heavily concentrated in the small existing volume. And we keep on going, but without telescopes. In our minds, we try to piece the puzzle together, We reach likely conclusions, such that the universe now springs from an infinitesimal point. Zero.

But let's say we keep peering back in time. We cross the milli, the micro, the nano. Always getting closer, we approach the pico, the femto, the atto. Much nearer that infinitesimal, sizeless instance we move past the zepto and the yocto.

And we keep going, in this fashion. Always getting closer to "zero"...but, maybe, without ever getting there. As if traversing a logarithmic function - time on the x axis; the order of magnitude of volume, if you will, on the y

Can we conclude this first instant ISN'T undefined, like log(0)? That, while we can keep approaching the instant when the universe was infinitesimal...we can never actually reach such a "zero" point?

The universe would spring from infinitely small to infinite big. Like its end may be undefined - occurring when the universe is infinitely old - its beggining may be, differently, undefined - occurring when the universe is infinitely close to zero .

Of course, both quantities are merely concepts, and neither can ever, ever be reached - since doing so would mean they're not truly infinite or infinitely small.

Answer 1

Time is a quantum entity so it must have a minimum sized pulse beyond which it can't exist.
The first space-time pulse came into existence some time after time zero.
It was an entity of minimum size and duration and there was no way to divide it and have it still exist.
Electro-magnetic radiation didn't exist before the first stars lit up about 100 million years after time zero so we couldn't look beyond this era.

Answer 2

Time is a quantity that tells you how fast a process takes place.
Before the process starts in a control system definition ,it is called" T zero minus". At the instance the process starts it is called" Tzero plus."
When it comes to Creation of the Universe time was created as part of the Universe.So we see the Universe as a set time that is constant.
But to Our Creator time is not constant its continuous as infinity. To Human time of the Universe appears as a long time.However the actual process of Creation was actually very short in the Span of Continuous time(infinity).

The Concept of Eternity is just not understood by humans.
That is why there is no real complete understanding of how the Creation of the Universe took place. Let alone the time that it took.

Answer 3

because time never had a zero point. sheez

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/video/9/5239/7817/50610/73742
Great video I just found. kinda long, but hang in there. They explain everything in the end.



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