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Originally Posted by N0B0DY

Perhaps if the apple and elephant were both equal to zero, it wouldn't seem so strange.

I'm referring to the inverse relationship whereby as time increases temperature decreases which should make sense as per the hot big bang model - very hot at the beginning and cooling through expansion.

If we go back in time to the big bang, all the way to time zero, absolute zero, how hot would the temperature be? I'm thinking it would be zero as well.

Ok, so you're asking about intial time and intial temperature (not the standard use of the notation!)

Your last paragraph doesn't follow from the second. You've correctly said that temperature depends inversely on t. More precisely, in the standard model, where a is the scale factor which goes like . So, roughly, we get that . This implies that as we run back time, the temperature increases and, if the model allowed us to (which it doesn't) the temperature would be infinite at t=0. We could have guessed this from the name of the theory: the hot big bang model!