For some writers this denotes only the initial singularity, for others the whole history of the Universe.
The main reason for wanting to falsify the strong energy condition is to avoid the initial singularity in the universe.
The initial singularity of the classical Big Bang models was replaced with a region akin to the North Pole.
Once - just after the initial singularity - the forces of physics were one, and the Universe was fully multi-dimensional.
Spinner, maybe there are alternate universes, out there somewhere, where more than three dimensions ballooned up after the initial singularity.
A closed universe stars with a big bang (an initial singularity) and expands.
At the same time, Starobinsky argued that quantum corrections to gravity would replace the initial singularity of the universe with an exponentially expanding deSitter phase.
Within the limits of observational error, my best estimates of current epoch show that the initial singularity preceding the expansion occurred thirty-three billion years ago.
In the beginning, according to this model, mass was compressed into a state of infinite density, an initial singularity.
In some of these, the universe has been expanding from an initial singularity; this is, essentially, the Big Bang.