"At <a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g&amp;t=2h13m55s"">2:13:55</a>... your guest made an erroneous (yet commonly accepted) assertion: that there was "a" (solitary) Big Bang.<br>&gt;&gt;&gt; The astrophysicist Hawking", (in a presentation in Japan, I believe), asserted that everything, in space, points to the occurrence of "singularities" (plural).<br><br>A singularity is "a" Big Bang.<br><br>Nice try, though.<br>&gt;&gt;&gt;Your guest is just parroting the common, prevailing conclusion that followed (back then) in the immediate wake of Stephen Hawking's assertion.