X-Ftn-To: Tris 

"Tris"  wrote:
>So why may one not assert the Big Bang was the origin of the causal chain?
>Why is that so unacceptable?

Well, you can try, but, this definition is hard to sustain. Big Bang
had a cause; it came to be in a point of time. The Big Bang is not
even the origin of time, since time is just another name for a change
of states, and even Big Bang is just another change, from singularity
to expanding universe. The Big Bang had a cause, and therefore it's
not the origin of anything, except our universe.

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