How did the universe begin?

[hawkingfan1]

I have alsothought it was a point. In Prof Hawkings books he says it is a point in space which nothing can escape.

[Mohan.C]

Hi hawkingfan1, if Prof. Hawking is right and nothing can escape singularity, then nothing can be created from it either, unless there is like, many singularity and they create extra dimensions.

Is it ok if you are called Lloyd may be!!

[hawkingfan1]

I have always thought it was a point.

[austintorn@aol.com]

To escape the paradox of

1) Nothing ever becoming from nothing, and

2) Real stuff always having existed in a definite form and amount and more without ever having been defined to this state—by having been around forever, which is a problem in itself as eternity could not have already passed and completed,

3) We surmise that the only “thing” that needs nothing before it is Possibility.

Possibility is even the naturally extended next dimension of all things in superposition, such as all possible universes. All was wide open “then”, for there were not any of the various physical laws, nor any form of substance, nor the substance moving and causing what we measure as time.

A not-quite analogy is the quantum realm in which a “particle” is everywhere.