[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by photon

I'd disagree, the Big Bang starts with the hot, dense, initial conditions of our universe, which is after inflation.

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...-happen-befor/



http://superstringtheory.com/cosmo/cosmo41.html

Though it's kind of semantics, since lots of people refer to the Big Bang as the absolute beginning.. but since we don't know (and don't have a theory adequate to describe) what happened before inflation, talking of absolute beginnings doesn't seem right.. or even necessary.

Thanks, I've never seen it stated that way, it is an interesting way of defining things for sure.
I suppose if you're looking at things that way, then it is all semantic.
It really depends on what you consider the big bang.