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Hello, new member here. I've been fascinated reading some of the threads and decided I had to register to ask a question that's always been a bit confusing to me.
From what I've learned The Big Bang theory seems the most likely explanation of the start of the universe but there's one thing in particular I don't understand about it.
Until after about a billionth of a second after the Big Bang when ElectroWeak symmetry breaking (the Higgs mechanism) occurred particles had no mass, yet the start of The Big Bang was supposed to be a singularity. Singularities are points of infinite density, how could it be a singularity if no particles had mass?
From what I've learned The Big Bang theory seems the most likely explanation of the start of the universe but there's one thing in particular I don't understand about it.
Until after about a billionth of a second after the Big Bang when ElectroWeak symmetry breaking (the Higgs mechanism) occurred particles had no mass, yet the start of The Big Bang was supposed to be a singularity. Singularities are points of infinite density, how could it be a singularity if no particles had mass?