Which probability do you assign to the big bang having actually occurred? After all, we are extrapolating from a single point in time and only in the visible part of the universe in which we see things flying apart. Perhaps the movement is much more complex than that (e.g. a pulsing motion).
It's better to think about the Big Bang as an admission of failure: using our best stitching of the two best theories that we have about the universe, and extrapolating back the data at hand as further as we can, we arrive to a point where our description breaks down (the singularity).
Will a better theory cast a brighter light on this point in space-time? I assign a 99.9% probability that it will.
I think that only the most zealot between relativists bite the bullet that inside a black hole there's actually a point where the gravitational field reaches an i...
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