It might have been thought that any evidence concerning a putative ‘aeon’ existing prior to our Big Bang must be well beyond any observational access, owing to the absolutely enormous temperatures arising at the Big Bang that would seem to obliterate all information, thereby separating us from all that supposed previous activity. We should bear in mind, however, that there has to be an extreme organization present in the Big Bang, as a direct implication of the Second Law, and the arguments of this book point to this ‘organization’ having the character that allows our Big Bang to be extended
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