Originally Posted By: Orac
Standard timeline to the big bang


That doesn’t address the question. You said: "If there was nothing at the big bang, there would be nothing now.” That is meaningless. The Big Bang was something, so what this says is: If there was nothing when there was something (?!) there would be nothing now.

If you accept that there was a Big Bang, and that it was something, then if you want to talk of the possibility of there having been nothing in relation to the BB, then you have to specify what you mean.

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That is what I suspected you want is Cosmogony but you didn't know the scientific term we give it.


I see the assumption of ignorance is alive and well. smile Where did I use the term “cosmology” where you think “cosmogony” would have been more appropriate? Could it be that you regard the Big Bang theory as cosmogony, in spite of the quote from your linked article?

Originally Posted By: Wiki
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model of the early development of the universe

There never was nothing.