r/spaceporn • u/npjprods • Jan 16 '22

The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978 Pro/Processed

Post image
54.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/SirStrontium Jan 16 '22

We don’t know anything about the state of the universe before the Big Bang, so you can’t claim it will be “no different” than something we don’t actually understand.

5

u/Kepabar Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

Of course not. The whole theory is non falsifiable. We think right now, anyway.

But this is a theory that has been put forward.

1

u/Outrageous-Taro7340 Jan 16 '22

Our current model is definitely falsifiable. So far, it is consistent with observation of the past and present universe.

1

u/Outrageous-Taro7340 Jan 16 '22

We know a great deal about the superinflation before the Big Bang. We have a model that describes what happened that is verified by observation. Yes, we can’t directly observe what happened before, but can’t directly observe the Big Bang either.