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Part II
The standard model treats the question of what came before the Big Bang as unanswerable in principle, since time itself is said to begin at the singularity. BFUT Paper 8 reconstructs a logically inevitable cold, dark, pre-luminous phase from first principles, in which matter accumulates over immense timescales before reaching local ignition thresholds. Under this reading, the Big Flare-Up is a transition within an already-existing, eternal universe, not a creation event marking the beginning of time itself [P8].
Source papers: P8