Because
the content of the Universe existed before Moment Zero, and because it
had
gravity, it is reasonable to suppose that some sort of
structure
existed before Moment Zero. It is also reasonable to suppose that
the structure, on the large scale at least, was much the same as that
of our present Universe. In this light, the period since Moment
Zero could be interpreted as being just one phase in the
Universe's much longer existence, raising the possibility that the
Universe could be an eternally happening succession of phases. In the
Current Paradigm, with its view of the Universe as a "closed cycle",
that wouldn't be out of place. In the
Malta Template, however, wedded
as it must be to the facts as we currently know them, such
conjectures are not allowed and so, as far as the Template is
concerned, the Universe began at Moment Zero.