justoffal
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Sure that makes perfect sense since we depend on light as both illuminator and permanent historian.... without light there's nothing to see so anything that happened prior to light is gone forever. Redefining time in terms of our finite motion measurements leaves us more or less in the lurch when it comes to examining micro-spans such as the one you're speaking of. A comparative eternity of events and an entire universe of compact space all beyond our ability either to see our examine it. Wonderful stuff really.As I understand it, scientists currently believe that, given the properties of the universe prior to the decodupling event (when the inflation began, and the first light was able to travel through a formerly opaque universe), we cannot see anything that happened more than 1E-33 seconds before this event. All prior information would be forever hidden from us.