[fso301]

THE singularity? A singularity is a mathematical concept, not a physical reality. Some physical things may be treated mathematically as a singularity even if they are not actually infinitely small. Whether a black hole hundreds of light years away is infinitely small, or not is irrelevant. The math works. The odds are pretty good that you can't really pack all the mass making up a black hole into a spot that has no volume.

Regardless of size, if all present physical laws came into being with the Big Bang, any attempt to describe conditions prior to the Big Bang using constructs from our present universe are invalid.

[norwaypinesavage]

"all present physical laws came into being with the Big Bang"

That's a new one I hadn't heard before. We've been asked to believe in "Inflation", a time after the big bang where the laws of physics didn't apply. Now you're telling me that before the big bang the laws of physics didn't even exist. That's quite a religion you have there.