Originally Posted by Retired on 40
... one still has to come to grips with the origin of a cyclic universe.

The prime mover problem.

But then the beauty of the cyclical universe in its reliance on the eternal immutability of the laws of physics. Given this assumption, I am not sure it makes sense to describe an origin. The assumption of immutable laws of physics seems to imply that there can be no initial creation event ... that would break the laws of physics and would require a supernatural event. So it's plausible that if laws of physics cannot be broken ... a cyclical universe can have no beginning.

The question of creation is a question that cannot be answered by science. It is something that will always require faith in a fabricated story. I am comfortable with the idea that the universe could be cycling eternally and that we will never understand how it was created.


It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers