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Yes, because eveything has a start. and an end in that matter.
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Who ever said that the universe is infinitely old? According to our understanding, the universe seems to be about 12 to 14 billion years old. While that is a pretty big number, it is not infinite.
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Not everything has a beginning and an end. I'm not really sure.
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Yes. The accepted theory is that an inflationary period occurred in the early universe when the universe was growing at a rate so great it is difficult to describe, expanding by at least 10^26 times in 10^-32 seconds. Then the inflationary period stopped, and the universe continued to expand following the older simpler Big Bang pattern. But some theories suggest that inflation only stopped in a local region of the universe. This "local region" is bigger than the "observable universe". The observable universe is the bit where light will eventually reach us, all other bits are receeding too fast for anything to ever reach us. This theory has the "local region" a bubble of normal universe following the Big Bang pattern in an infinite sea of inflation. And if the rest of it is still inflating, maybe it's always been inflating, with occasional bubbles of Big Bang forming in it, for ever.
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personally I'm a Christian but I don't see any way for the big bang theory to be plausible. It calls for all laws of matter and energy to be temporarily suspended during the first 10^-43 seconds for no known reason. This immediately calls our current scientific laws into question if the big bang were true. are the laws actually being suspended or is the universe actually governed by laws that have additional terms which are approximately zero in the observable situations today. this seems much more plausible then the laws suddenly ceasing to exist because the laws themselves imply they are constants. until we find a new set of physical laws which can explain current observable phenomenon and don't have to suddenly cease to exist for the big bang to work the big bang theory needs to be questioned
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No - if one agrees with the last part {infinity} it stands to reason there was no begining. +5
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If the universe was infinitely old then the Big Bang wouldn't be possible since the Big bang was the begining of the universe.
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it depend on how you look at it, the big bang theorizes that before the bang the was a quantum singularity, that contained all matter, so if you think of the universe being contained in the singularity, it could be infinite
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