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Maybe I guess. Many models stipulate that time began with the Big Bang. Many propose the Big Bang was a local event that obliterated our ability to observe time before it. We have models where the universe rips apart, collapses, or just evolves forever and always has and always will. I think what’s crucial to understand is we have a lot of different possible explanations for what we see, some of them discuss beginnings and ends, some do not. Perhaps as a mathematician with a relatively closed set of possibilities for explanations that’s unsettling. But, I’ve always found the various paradoxes in math to illustrate similar problems in formulating a closed and coherent anything, including the universe.



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