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I don't follow. How is this related to my question?

I'm not a Physicist (I don't even have a beard:smile:), I'm a newbie Chemist and amateur Philosopher but I have difficulty understanding why there is a problem saying there was time before the big bang. I don't even see why there must be, or how there could be a beginning at all. If we define...

I have often been told that at the start of our "universe" (I prefer "self-contained energy system" - SCES, myself) all energy was contained in a singularity. What is the evidence for this all-containing singularity being the initiation of the big bang? Is it not reasonable that the extremely...