Gravity is a cosmology. If space-time curvature is
positive everywhere then we live in closed universe.
It curves back on itself as a seemless whole.
As Einstein said: finite but unbounded.
Hawking is in agreement: The No Boundary Proposal.
But there is a problem. Its if Hawking starts the universe
out without gravity. He has to because if he includes
the gravity it would make the universal singularity a black
hole without any possibility of expanding or inflating.
Its infinite gravity would prevent it.
There was no original mass singularity at the Big Bang.
Instead matter was created spread out with a finite
density. This is why the Big Bang's gravity was finite;
and therefore why inflation could take off.
Matter was created seperated by an original energy
buildup.
A mindlesss lump of matter is not the Creator of the
universe.