So you are saying that infinitely slowed time is not stopped?
Time is relative, so whilst time might (or might not) stop at a point of infinite mass, at a distance time might continue.
We are still only considering time. Are you proposing energy and matter at this stage.
We're talking about proximity to mass, so we must be considering energy/matter in some form as I understand it.
We still have the question of why it suddenly goes from being non dimensional to now being possibly multidimensional.
Absolutely, just one of the reasons I find it harder to accept this explanation, because in the middle of this where everything's supposed to be time would be theoretically stagnant so I can't see how you'd have anything changing to bring about longer-term changes like the Big Bang - it's possible something else could impinge upon it from outside, but then that 'area' needs time or a corollary anyway.
OK Ok I can see something like this working in the universe....something like a black hole. But That type of thing cannot have infinite mass because it is a thing in the universe.
Except that the mass is distorting the space/time and gravity around it, so our usual 'methods' for determining something's mass start to break down. If you compress a finite mass into a infinitessimally small space you have infinite density... which implies infinite mass. Like I said, when you start to deal with infinities, maths starts to break down.
The universe itself would have been that infinite core.
As I understand the idea, yes.
There are two questions here or maybe they are the same question firstly How does it change its state if it is entirely infinite core as it were.
That's my issue with the theory, but as I said it could be reliant on external forces (or, perhaps, something like the spontaneous quantum foam breakdown, but my understanding of that is that it requires a timeframe as well).
And secondly how can there be any fringes and activity within them?
What represents the 'fringe' and what the 'core' isn't well defined as I recall, but I think it's supposed to be something that develops as the expansion starts - I'm part conjecturing and part trying to recall bits and pieces I've read here and there.
What are you suggesting is beyond the fringe?
I don't recall reading anything linked to this that posited anything particular about anything outside the universe; we've already had conversations elsewhere about my take on some of the possibilities presented by an extra-universal physics.
I hate to say it but I think I'm glimpsing that the term infinite here is causing our theoretical universe problems getting moving. Too early to say "I told you so"!though.
I'm not sure it's the infinities here that are causing the issue, although they highlight it, it's trying to take universal rules and go back to a pre-universal point, realising that doesn't work and trying to find a way to make the universe eternal rather than having to fall back on conjecture about what might be 'outside' of it.
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