A Theory of the Big Bang in McTaggart's Time

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel theoretical model of the Big Bang based on McTaggart's distinctions of time, integrating Presentist and Fragmentalist views with quantum mechanics and relativity to address fundamental cosmological questions.

Contribution

It introduces a new conceptual framework combining McTaggart's temporal series with quantum and relativistic principles to analyze the origins of the universe.

Findings

Distinguishes between earlier times and further past towards the Big Bang.

Integrates Presentist and Fragmentalist views with quantum mechanics.

Clarifies the implications of relativity of simultaneity for cosmological models.

Abstract

There are long standing questions about the Big Bang What were its properties? Was there nothing before it? Was the universe always here? Many conceptual issues revolve around time. This paper gives a novel model based on McTaggarts temporal distinction between the A-series future-present-past and B-series earlier-times to later times. These series are useful while situated in a Presentist and Fragmentalist account of quantum mechanics, one in which the consistency with the Special Relativity in particular the relativity of simultaneity will be made explicit section 6. This allows us to make a fruitful distinction between two pertinent questions what happens as we go to earlier times toward the Big Bang? And: what happens as we go further into the past toward the Big Bang?