But none of this really engages with the primary & essential ??? of what this 'singularity' or 'particle' or whevs actually WAS & whence it came. So the basic postulate to all these theories is absent, and without it all is shadow-boxing &, as the Ecclesiasticist כהלת put it, 'vanity & vexation of spirit'...

So, I ask again — v thread title...