Maybe the universe is a trillion years old and has experienced several big bangs and big collapses over the years. "People have inferred that time began then, but there really wasn't any reason for that inference. What we are proposing is very radical. It's saying there was time before the big bang."

This entry was published on May 05, 2006 at 06:49 pm.

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