If time had no beginning
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-09-27 v1
Abstract
General Relativity traces the evolution of our Universe back to a Big Bang singularity. To probe physics before the singularity -- if indeed there is a ``before'' -- we must turn to quantum gravity. The Causal Set approach to quantum gravity provides us with a causal structure in the absence of the continuum, thus allowing us to go beyond the Big Bang and consider cosmologies in which time has no beginning. But is a time with no beginning in contradiction with a passage of time? In the Causal Set approach, the passage of time is captured by a process of spacetime growth. We describe how to adapt this process for causal sets in which time has no beginning and discuss the consequences for the nature of time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.11953,
title = {If time had no beginning},
author = {Bruno Valeixo Bento and Stav Zalel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11953},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures