Daniel Whiteson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's not an infinitely dense point which exploded out into space.
Lots of theories about where that stuff came from, inflation, etc.
But we don't know if there was a beginning.
We don't know if that goes on forever backwards in time.
We don't know what happened there.
And so when I say maybe the early universe can help us understand how to bring general relativity in harmony with quantum mechanics, I say that we could just watch it.
If we can look and see what happened before the moment of the Planck density, then we could know.
And so that's hard, right?
Experimentally, that's very, very challenging.
Of course.
I've heard everything from quantum foam to in the beginning.
So where, I mean, if you had to, we're going to do a lot of speculation today.
Where do you go?
Where do you lean?
Yeah, well, we're gonna know.
We're gonna figure it out.
We are?
We absolutely are.
I have confidence.
Look, humans are clever, right?