Stephen Hawking in particular has addressed a connection between <answer>time</answer> and the Big Bang. In A Brief History of Time and elsewhere, Hawking says that even if <answer>time</answer> did not begin with the Big Bang and there were another <answer>time</answer> frame before the Big Bang, no information from events then would be accessible to us, and nothing that happened then would have any effect upon the present <answer>time</answer>-frame. Upon occasion, Hawking has stated that <answer>time</answer> actually began with the Big Bang, and that questions about what happened before the Big Bang are meaningless. This less-nuanced, but commonly repeated formulation has received criticisms from philosophers such as Aristotelian philosopher Mor<answer>time</answer>r J. Adler.
What does Hawking suggest started with the big bang?
time