Quote Originally Posted by maks View Post
the laws of physics do not show that something but be created out of something identical. even if the universe loops, a big bang then a big crush etc etc there's no reason to believe it would happen the same way every time
it wouldn't be the same every time; the odds are just that our same universe would recur eventually, after many many (on an order of scientific notation so great, it probably can't be expressed by conventional means) universes have been created/destroyed