Q&A: The Big Bang, The Planck Era, and The Cosmological Argument

Greetings Evan,

In a blog post of yours titled "Is The Big Bang The Origin Of The Universe?", you stated:

"There’s just simply no reason to think that we can’t extrapolate the expansion all the way back to an absolute beginning out of nothing."

Reading this got me thinking, and although I did agree with you, I decided it would be beneficial to study the Big Bang Theory (and other competing theories) more thoroughly myself. In doing so, I've read some interesting details concerning the contempora...