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   On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 09:34:09 +0100, Pancho wrote:   
      
   > The joke was meant to be that it is totally unreasonable to assume that   
   > time did start with the big bang and that it was a stupid special case   
   > anyway.   
      
   Some think time may have started with the Big Bang, but there are hints   
   that there may be, or have been, other Bangs, before, since, elsewhere,   
   elsewhen.   
      
   One thing is true: our Big Bang is the biggest single event to have   
   happened in our little observable corner of the Universe over the entire   
   timespan that we’re aware of. So it makes sense to use that, more than   
   anything else, as our calendar reference for measuring all of time --   
   certainly more sense than some fictional religious event that only has   
   significance to one small part of our species. At least until we come up   
   with a better one.   
      
   “The Universe is such a fascinating place, don’t you think? I wouldn’t   
   want to live anywhere else.”   
       -- half-remembered quote from I don’t know where   
      
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