You’re seated for a while fiddling with your program, and then suddenly at t = 0 the music starts. But the analogy is mistaken. Unlike the beginning of a concert, the singularity at the beginning of the universe is not an event in time. Rather, it is a temporal boundary or edge. There are no moments of time “before” t = 0. So there was never a time when Nothingness prevailed. And there was no “coming into being”—at least not a temporal one. As Grünbaum is fond of saying, even though the universe is finite in age, it has always existed, if by “always” you mean at all instants of time.
