[philsquared_]

"Anything that talks about 'the world is round' isn't science. It may be astrology or mathematical speculation but it is not science."

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

One can do experiments to empirically test the earth is round.

There are no experiments one can do to empirically test things asserted before the Big Bang.

[philipov]

While I agree with the sentiment here, Penrose has come up with a model that does make testable hypotheses about what happened before the big bang with his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Now, I think that as a matter of fact, the predictions he made have turned out to not be true, but at least he came up with a way to test them. If I recall correctly, the predictions had to do with patterns in the CMB that would have been left over from black holes in a universe before the big bang, and those patterns ended up not being there. It wasn't the right answer, but that's science.

[philsquared_]

"Dont hypothesize over anything that cannot be immediatly tested otherwise it isnt science" -rcouf1z4gsc

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Yeah testable hypothesis are what separate science from other disciplines. If you don’t have a testable hypothesis, you don’t have science