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mk  ·  4613 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Happened Before The Big Bang?
Hear hear.

IMO this is a huge stumbling block in science, that many cannot get over. The nature of things does not need to coincide with our ability to comprehend it. The litmus test of knowledge is not whether or not it can be defined by a human paradigm. It is only that which follows from experiment and observation. Space and time do not exist for quantum particles as we experience them. We do not have the preferred perspective on space and time. If anything, it would make sense that ours is a limited perspective, designed specifically for our types of interactions, not designed to conceptualize the whole of them. 'Before the Big Bang' is all about us, not about the universe.