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[OngBonga]

That stuff about quark tension is cool.

Light always travels at c

So we're back to the problem of the entire life of the EW universe happening before light can travel even a tiny distance. That really does bend my head. Certainly, I feel like our concept of time is redundant in this world. I mean, the best I can imagine is that the universe is so dense, that even though a photon only travels a tiny distance in during the entire EW epoch, it still interacts with a truly massive amount of energy. I keep thinking of particles colliding, but I know we're at a much more quantum level than that. Still, it's a reasonable metaphor for what I can't understand going on, so forgive me if I persist with it. When we talk of time, we have to think of space, too. I think a light cone (actually a sphere) one light second in diameter would be a fair spacial representation of a second in time. This is the range of causality. A light cone with a diameter of 10^-43 light seconds is practically a singularity, yet an enormous amount of stuff must be happening in this region. From a tiny universe in a fraction of a second came the hugest and most complex of systems. It really does make you wonder what the fuck time really is.

Time doesn't flow backwards, as far as we can observe. It flows at different rates for different observers, but always in the same direction. That reminds me of the second law of thermodynamics. Is time just the flow of entropy? Nature's eternal quest for equlibrium?