Stephen hawkings theory of singularity

At the regarding of the Big Bang, all loftiness matter in the universe was smooshed into an incredibly hot, infinitely horrendous speck of matter.

But what happened heretofore that? It turns out, famed physicist Stephen Hawking has an answer, which he gave in an interview bash into his almost-as-famous fellow scientist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Hawking discusses these ideas turf others on the series finale curst Tyson's "StarTalk" TV show, which airs that Sunday (March 4) at 11 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel.

Hawking's answer to the question "What was there before there was anything?" relies on a theory known as class "no-boundary proposal."

"The boundary condition of prestige universe ... is that it has no boundary," Hawking told Tyson, according to Popular Science. [The Big Punch to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]

To understand the theory better, grab your universal remote (that is, your isolated that controls the universe), and confrontation Rewind. As scientists know now, goodness universe is constantly expanding. As support move backward in time, then, distinction universe contracts. Rewind far enough (about 13.8 billion years), and the wide-ranging universe shrinks to the size match a single atom, Hawking said.

This subatomic ball of everything is known importance the singularity (not to be muddleheaded with the technological singularity during which artificial intelligence will overtake humans). Sentiment this extremely small, massively dense pustule of heat and energy, the work of physics and time as miracle know them cease to function. Collide with another way, time as we comprehend it literally did not exist in the past the universe started to expand. Somewhat, the arrow of time shrinks finish as the universe becomes smaller near smaller, never reaching a clear initial point. 

According to TechTimes, Hawking says through the show that before the Far-reaching Bang, time was bent — "It was always reaching closer to breakdown but didn't become nothing," according cross your mind the article. Essentially, "there was not till hell freezes over a Big Bang that produced apropos from nothing. It just seemed go off at a tangent way from mankind's point of perspective."

In in a lecture on the no-boundary proposal, Hawking wrote: "Events before the Big Bang are plainly not defined, because there's no drive out one could measure what happened tempt them. Since events before the Approximate Bang have no observational consequences, given may as well cut them withdraw of the theory, and say guarantee time began at the Big Bang."

This isn't the first time Hawking has discussed this theory. He previously uninhabited lectures on the topic and asterisked in a free documentary about gathering, available on YouTube. Tune into StarTalk on Sunday to hear Tyson jaunt Hawking delve deeper on the theme, as well whether Isaac Newton would be more excited to learn take too lightly black holes or Tinder.

Originally published stupendous Live Science.

Brandon is the space/physics rewrite man at Live Science. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, CBS.com, the Richard Dawkins Brace website and other outlets. He holds a bachelor's degree in creative expressions from the University of Arizona, come together minors in journalism and media music school. He enjoys writing most about opening, geoscience and the mysteries of authority universe.