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Originally Posted by oska
Alex, I think your understanding is correct.
The maths, worked backwards gives the theoretical notion of a singularity.
As to your question: In reality the bottom line is we don't (perhaps can't) know and are merely speculating as to the state(s) at the early time scales. And the level of speculation goes up (perhaps exponentially) as time t approaches the theoretical singularity.
In my opinion terms like "primordial atom" are designed to provoke emotions.
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Thanks John for sharing your wisdom.
The primordial atom was a key term when the Therory was being developed and seems to have been sparked by many cultures having their cosmology starting with a " cosmic egg"...which was in general a Pagan notion but the notion seemed to appeal and so reinvented as the "cosmic atom".
Having time on my hands I tend to think about these things... I am more inclined to think the Universe is eternal and has always been here rather than coming from a super hot dense state but what I think is irrelevant and please realise I make no claim that I have the answers...the method of extrapolating things back to a dot seems entirely flawed to me.
Still I am not a crack pot as I respect current theories and scientific method...
I do wish that I had the ability to program so I could create a universe with universal pressure operative and then put things in like a galaxy to observe the rotation curves...
Alex