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Did the universe have a beginning and will it have an end? Or has it always been and will it always be more or less the same, perhaps changing in certain shifting localities but remaining, overall, unchanged? In other words, do we support the ‘big bang’ theory or the theory of continuous creation?
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G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (1971), p. 269.
Lucretius, The Nature of the Universe (trans. R. Latham), Penguin, Harmondsworth (1951), p. 66.
B. Farrington, The Faith of Epicurus, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London (1967).
Diogenes Laertius, The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. 2, The Loeb Classical Library, Heinemann, London (1925), p. 667.
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Smith, C.U.M. (1976). Elea and After. In: The Problem of Life. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02461-2_6
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