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jrnnglast Tuesday at 8:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

What if it's circular, or cyclical?

We don't know empirically what came before the beginning.


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ndsipa_pomulast Tuesday at 8:48 AM

As we haven't seen any evidence of this, then the effects must be so tiny that we can just ignore that possibility. It's like worrying about the gravitational effects of Russell's Teapot.

mr_mitmlast Tuesday at 8:51 AM

Then it'd still have a direction