[MD] FW: Quantum weirdness

[Case]

> [Case]
> > I think the point here is that whatever "caused" the big bang or
whatever
> > "happened before" it have no causal impact in our world. Space and time 
> > for us start at that point. It is the first cause.
> 
> [Platt]
> How can space and time be created since it takes time and space to create?
> 
> [Case]
> Space and time are not "things" and they certainly aren't separate
"things".
> They are one. Time is evident in the first spatial dimension. The first
> dimension is a line connecting A to B. If you can specify a distance
between
> the two points it can be expressed in units of time or space equally well.

> 
> Matter is space/time bent in on itself. You must have seen those gravity
> wells that let you roll a coin into the center. The coin gets faster and
> faster as it rolls in ever tighter spirals until it falls into a hole not
> much bigger than the coin. Matter is this kind of curvature of space
itself.

So you're saying time and space weren't created, or what?

[Case]
The Big Bang theory asserts that space and time came into existence at that
instant. The only serious challenges to this view have come from within
physics itself.