• Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. • It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae. • But as the tape rewinds, everything begins to shrink until it reaches an evanescent pinprick of energy - a point everyone knows as the big bang. • And that is where the screen goes blank. • To ask what came before this is to invite the scorn of scientists and philosophers alike. • It is like asking what’s north of the North Pole - a meaningless, impossible question.

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  • Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae. But as the tape rewinds, everything begins to shrink until it reaches an evanescent pinprick of energy - a point everyone knows as the big bang. And that is where the screen goes blank. To ask what came before this is to invite the scorn of scientists and philosophers alike. It is like asking what’s north of the North Pole - a meaningless, impossible question. Or is it? Over the past few years, a

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