Need there have been a "beginning of time"

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Honestly, I would say no. Its entirely possible that the scale of time in the multiverse is infinite.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, finite and infinite time make about as much sense when you stop and think about it.

[RINO Tom]

I would say definitely yes.  You are effectively postulating that something that isn't quite technically "time" as we know it in our Universe might have existed before the Big Bang in some hypothesized multiverse and not had a beginning.

Besides ... as physicist Paul Davies once said, "To postulate an infinity of unseen and unseeable universes just to explain the one we do see seems like a case of excess baggage carried to the extreme. It is simpler to postulate one unseen God."  The latter of course just makes Solid angry.

[°Leprechaun]

I voted "no". I don't see how the question of whether the universe had a beginning can ever be answered.

I don't see how one could prove that the universe had a beginning, nor can it proven that it did not.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     That time has a beginning is effectively a logical fact. If one were to suppose otherwise, it would mean that an actual infinite has been iterated to arrive at the present, which is definitionally impossible. The Grim Reaper Paradox uses a somewhat different but logically equivalent setup to demonstrate the serious problems that this would cause.

[progressive85]

I think it's meant to be a mystery.  Like Heaven, we can believe it exists without really seeing any scientific proof.  We're not supposed to know all the answers.

It could be that the beginning of time was the end of time, or that it was born out of the end of a previous time... it really boggles the mind.