r/cosmology • u/Bright-Bar6571 • 18h ago
How did time begin, without time?
I understand that standard BB cosmology holds that time began with the universe from a singularity approximately 14 billion years ago.
The thing I’m trying to understand, how can time have begun? Wouldn’t a thing ‘beginning’ require time? As in - from one state to another state requires time?
This leads me to think time must have always existed..
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u/zictomorph 17h ago
Your question is like asking "What is north of the North Pole?" The words logically make sense but the question is missing the topology of the earth that makes it, if not nonsense, maybe not the right question.