(March 6, 2013 at 3:47 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(March 5, 2013 at 10:41 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: The weight of evidence is it began to exist (in the configuration we now observe) about 13 and half billion years ago. Assuming it was a singularity at one point that is nothing like a universe.
It's not much like the current universe, but it's not like nothing at all, at all.
Considering that by definition, a universe is everything that exists, I'd say it looks exactly like a universe - but as you say, not much like the one we know today.