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Did the laws of the universe exist before inflation phase of the 'big bang' allowing the 'big bang' to evolve, or did the laws evolve later...
 
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iearthling said:
Did the laws of the universe exist before inflation phase of the 'big bang' allowing the 'big bang' to evolve, or did the laws evolve later...

I don't see how one could answer this question, since you need to make some assumption about laws in order to construct a model that makes predictions at all.
 

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