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