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If dolphins are intelligent, surely some repeatable experiment can be designed to show this.

And btw, while I'll accept the point in theory, do you have any realistic examples of unrepeatable experiments in mind? Besides ones involving people, I guess.

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the big bang.

maybe the opposite of the big bang -- destroying everything. When exists==nothing....

the possibility exists that : 1) its impossible to annihilate everything without also recreating a universe in the process 2) that logic itself [as the refinement of inter-cusp physical experience] is not applicable to the start and end of universes.

The possibility also exists that possibility, reality and other existence-based terms as we use them are not applicable to the start and end of universes.

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