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What happened before the big bang?

Vexen
in Astronomy and Cosmology

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Was there anything before the big bang?

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6 minutes ago, QuantumT said:

Only nobody knows.

Can you explain further?

1 minute ago, Vexen said:

Can you explain further?

Science can only "see" back to the point immediately after the BB.

1 hour ago, Vexen said:

Was there anything before the big bang?

The premise of your question is false. The basic idea is that time itself began with the BB. Ergo, asking what came before is meaningless. There was no before since there was no time. It’s undefined. 

4 minutes ago, iNow said:

The premise of your question is false. The basic idea is that time itself began with the BB. Ergo, asking what came before is meaningless. There was no before since there was no time. It’s undefined. 

Yep, the correct appropriate answer to that question. Which is why I generally reply to similar questions that the BB was the evolution of time and space, as we know them. Although you covered that with "its undefined"

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