Hello, ICANT.
ICANT writes:
The problem I got with this statement is it is there and then the universe emerges. If it did not come out of the singularity where did the universe come from and where did the singularity go?
All the knowledgeable, smart people have failed to make you understand what a singularity is and where it comes from, so I will make one last attempt, from my cosmological dumbness, to explain it in a simple way.
"Singularity" means "current math doesn't work." Let's say, for instance, that we are cavemen, and we just figured out how to do addition. This model worked great for determining the number of rabbits each hunter in our tribe caught during the day. If Ug caught one rabbit in the morning, the next rabbit he caught would make his total number of rabbits two.
However, when the bully, Grog, took away one of Ug's rabbits, our addition model failed to predict the number of rabbits Ug would have afterward. Try as we might, we could not find a situation under which our addition model would allow the number of rabbits to decrease. Since we did not know how to do subtraction, we were unsuccessful at explaining the phenomenon to Ug. We had to throw our hands up in the air and say, "Sorry, Ug: our model doesn't explain this."
So, as soon as Ug starts losing rabbits, our addition model reaches a singularity: it can no longer predict the number of rabbits Ug will have. Essentially, the inability of a certain model to explain a phenomenon is called a "singularity."
BB reaches a singularity beyond T=10^-43. This means, BB theory cannot explain anything that happened before T=10^-43. In like manner, evolutionary theory reaches a singularity before the point where the first organism arose (however, unlike BB theory, ToE scientists haven't actually established when we reach that point). Until there is life, ToE doesn't explain what's happening.
So, roughly speaking, "singularity" = "inability for a theory to explain a phenomenon." Got it?
Edited by Bluejay, : Added the greeting.
I'm Thylacosmilus.
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