The Universe
The Universe
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I don't have anything to say about "the beginning" of the universe except that your use of the word "beginning" presupposes that the universe began. Your question omits the possibility that the word beginning may not apply here. Hawking's model suggests that it is not proper to think of the universe as having a "beginning" because, he says, the Big Bang is "boundariless." We can think in terms of time only since the Big Bang. Even to say that we cannot think in terms of time "before" but only since the Big Bang is to misunderstand what Hawking is saying; the very use of the word before is inappropriate for this model.
M. Woodward.