(November 9, 2012 at 4:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Fair enough, but then you can't safely postulate that the singularity was eternal and/or stable.That the singularity was eternal is one of the possible alternatives being considered. It follows by definition that something which eternally existed in one form was stable.
Quote:Just because nobody can (yet) lay claim to knowledge of the initial conditions and how they pertain to what followed, doesn't mean that everything goes and every opinion is equally as valid as every other.I agree, but that seems to be the view of some of my opponents.
