There
are numerous theories about the singularity at the start of the
Universe (or Multiverse) and the paradigm in which it existed. The
General Theory of Relativity extrapolation regarding gravity reduced
to time=0 has the point infinitely, vanishingly small. No one
actually understands what occurs to either mass or energy in such a
state. Some believe it stops shrinking to nothing somewhere (maybe
because time has stopped too) and is stable, fair and balanced before
quantum uncertainty makes it jittery and it explodes then
hyper-inflates for a fraction of a second.
That's
all speculation. Quantum mechanics don't work at that level. People
have invented pre-big bang theories and view the t=0 singularity as a
kind of middle of an hour glass that another Universe collapses in to
with gravity before exploding outward. There are DeBroglie-Bohm and
Everettian versions of quantum mechanics differing from those of the
standard model of the Copenhagen Interpretation and they would allow
different ideas about the singularity (unless it was a membrane
instead of a singularity) to be made.
The
mass-energy of the Universe compacted to a singularity could be
configured in as many ways as human imagination allows. I like the
idea about Divine Mechanics. Some prefer Tegmark's concept of the
Universe composed of mathematics in-itself. A point is a
zero-dimension thing, If a point with a Universe full of energy-mass
existed it seems as if there could be no virtual particles around it
since that energy would be attracted to it as should everything else
across empty space.
Virtual
particles are something like ghost super-positions of particles that
actually exist. It could be that the singularity had a quantum cloud
extending in all possible positions across the empty space where it
was not. Even the quantum cloud would have used some energy-perhaps
equal to the amount of energy in the singularity; yet I am skeptical
of that.
One
wonders what sort of energy would contain or define the limits of
superpositioned particles of the cloud centered on the singularity;
if there is a Multiverse would the superpositoned cloud be limited to
just one Universe or all possible Universes? Would the quantum cloud
of any particular Universe interfere with the cloud field of others?
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