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Originally Posted by tommac
If it is eventless ... then what does before mean?
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If it is to be a pedantic discussion then I even have to define, in my terms, what eventless means. But I want scientific discussion. So I will compare what I am saying to something well within standard theory. When a photon goes from A to B from our observations it takes some time to do so. Also we have no difficulty appreciating a time before the photon. Now the worldline of the photon is a null WRT time tau=0 but it still has a sequence of events! Otherwise cause and effect scrambles. Now would a photon perhaps have trouble appreciating a "before it started"? I think so. Mind experiments (the OP, that is what this is about) nearly always adopt unreasonable "frames" like that of the photon, in order to explore possibilities that are hard or impossible otherwise to visualize. So we are outside of spacetime constraints and we observe a BEC Before (from our frame) time began. The eruption (BB) of the BEC was perhaps a null time sequence like the photon. So if you can explain the photon and it's null time then I will explain before for BEC.