On: Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

[Dylan16807]

Yes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.

[brankoB → Dylan16807]

How does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?

[Dylan16807 → brankoB]

By being the contents that make that set exist.