Originally Posted by
Taosaur
What sort of big bang would be preceded by something other than a singularity? The very concept of a big bang is that everything that currently constitutes our universe, including the laws, forces, bright and dark matter and the whole shebang, were once, and through several brief stages of expansion, concentrated into a uniform (if changing), particle-less pre-mass. Why insert some mathematical or extra-dimensional deus ex machina when there is an observable quality of our universe, quantum indeterminacy, that rather neatly describes the transition from uniformity to divergence?