Thanks, phinds. I read the FAQs and found them somewhat helpful. Still, I am trying to figure out how to dismiss a commitment to a Newtonian absolute space within which the universe's initial state would have to be situated.
Suppose that prior to (assuming temporal concepts can be applied in...
I have heard statements made that at the instant of the Big Bang, the entire universe was condensed into an incredibly tiny space (a "singularity"). But I've also heard it said that space-time began with the Big Bang. So the singularity did not exist within a Newtonian absolute space. How, then...