when did time begin

[meredith101]

if there wasnt space and time, then there was space and time, but during planck time there was not a quantum state where space and time could exist:::::::::::::;what was the state of things during this 'time'?????

[loni32]

confusing !!!!

[Clanad]

Simply put, we don't know and may never know. It is certainly inferred, however, that before the "time" from singularity to Planck time (10^-43 seconds) the event must have had a "beginning". This, then implies that there was nothing before it's inception. Nothing, zip, nada... no space, no time... ab nihilo...and this lies at the heart of the debate about what could have been the causal factor...

[jake-the-peg]

I'm afraid that you'll never describe such things in English.

The words you are forced to use all reflects concepts of time - exist - implies ongoing time as does during. Clanad used the word causal this too implies time.

None of this is meaningful when you are considering these things.

Your question is like asking what it's like to stand on the "one half-th rung of a ladder"

We all spend our lives experiencing time and think we know how it works what it means but it just doesn't work like that under extreme conditions and our ability to descrbe it in natural language just breaks down