In the Beginning…

When was that? Some religious folks might say that was 6 thousand years ago when a lonely guy got a bright idea to create something to keep him company. Stephen Hawkins would probably disagree favoring something like 13 billion years ago and the method of creation was more of a big bang. Then again, Prof. Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University) would probably describe it more as a big smash than a big bang between universes that…