This suggests to me that when we go back to the earliest moments of the universe, time as we understand it no longer exists. Instead we are in a sort of time vortex (for want of a better word). Some chance anomaly (symmetry breaking) sets it going off in a particular direction and we have a universe. This requires neither an infinite preceding time nor an infinitely dense singularity, both of which are unsatisfactory. The universe starts with a paradox. That appeals to me.