No time exists without changes. If no change then no time either. We must admit it. Changes needed to time to exist. As our current ...
No time exists without changes. If no change then no time either. We must admit it. Changes needed to time to exist.
As our current view, time started with our universe. No time existed before the big bang. The big bang created our universe and our time too.
We do not know what happened at the exact moment when the universe born. And because the time was born with the universe we say the question has no meanings: what was before the big bang. The usual answer is the universe came into existence from nothing. However, we are on the field of speculative cosmology now, we may have unusual, unorthodox claims.
What if...
What if the universe not born with the big bang but existed before, only the time started with the big bang. What does it mean, especially with the argument that time is not a real part of the universe? But if we consider the time as change maybe this speculation has meaning.
If the time has started with the big bang, it means the changes started with the big bang. If no changes then no time, then the universe was in an unchanging state before the big bang.
(The thermodynamic equilibrium, the maximum entropy has no time either, but rule out this possibility for the universe when it's born because the thermodynamic equilibrium has microscopic changes, only on the macroscopic system level these changes don't show differences. However, our presumption states that no changes at all in the system. Another aspect is that the universe was in a low entropy state when it was born, so let us rule out the thermodynamic equilibrium.)
What is this unchanging state of the universe before the big bang means? It means everything before the big bang was in the same state. It does not necessary means that everything was in the same state constantly. Of course, if everything is in the same state then no changes and no time exist. However, no time could mean that every change in the system synchronized in the whole system globally. Because everything is in the same state globally, even if there are changes in the system, no time exists because time needs local differences in the system.
A continuously unchanging system does not have the potential to change at all, but a synchronized changing system has the potential of the desynchronization.
So how the universe came into existence according to this speculation? The universe, the particles of the universe (not necessarily the particles that we know of now) was in a continuously but synchronized changing (we may say vibrating) state. No time existed because of no local differences in the system. And at a specific moment at a specific place (which is not really specific, it can occur anywhere, anytime) a desynchronization happens. Because the whole system is not in the same state now, the time has started. This desynchronization, like an explosion, spread in the system, the universe that we know of came into existence. A big bang happened.
Besides, this method could be applied at the end too. As the known universe aging, it comes closer and closer to the synchronized state. And at the endpoint, the whole system becomes synchronized again waiting for the next desynchronization.
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