Imagine you have a note you don’t want me to read so you burn it, but I can still look at the ashes under a microscope and maybe make out the letters, so you use a hotter fire that vapourises the paper, but then I can maybe analyse the gas residue and work out what kind of paper you used and how much paper and ink there was. The big bang is like a fire that burns information, there’s theoretically no way to know how the matter and energy before the big bang was organised, how much of it there was or even if it, or time itself existed, and it would make no difference to ‘now’ if it did.
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