{"text":"The claim that the universe *began* with the big bang has no basis in current physical and cosmological knowledge. The observations confirming the big bang do not rule out the possibility of a prior universe.","author":"Victor J. Stenger","tags":["big-bang-theory","cosmology","physics","science","space","spacetime","the-big-bang","theoretical-physics","time"],"id":128684,"author_id":"Victor+J.+Stenger"}