"Tim Daneliuk" wrote in message
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Duane Bozarth wrote:

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

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Oh really. Then do clarify my obvious lack of cosmological
sophistication. Just where, pray tell, did the massive
amounts of energy/mass/gooey-stuff-that-populated-the-universe
come from? Last I looked, the Big Bang is posited to be
the demarcation of the Beginning Of The Universe -i.e.,
It is the moment in time when things got rolling. [snip]

Not so. The best and clearest explanation I've seen is in Greene's The
Fabric of the Cosmos. The Big Bang took place after some preconditions were
met, and he includes a timeline in the explanation. Regards --