“Neves suggests the elimination of a key aspect of the standard cosmological model: the need for a spacetime singularity known as the Big Bang.”
In other words, the big bang is nothing more than an assumption.
I think a great deal of modern science is based on assumption.
And that’s fine. You need a hypothesis, or a working model. You try to imagine something which might make sense out of a situation which is not understood at the moment. I have no problem with this.
But then this morphs into “settled science” and shouting down of people who disagree about Global Warming, or Evolution, or the Big Bang, or whatever. Scientists like to pretend that they KNOW the answers. Too often, they don’t. They’re making guesses and shouting at people who disagree.