ButtholeBanquets t1_j1qh644 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 4:17 PM Reply to eli5 what is the most credible theory for what existed before the big bang? by waterboy14 As far as we can tell there was no "before" the big bang. The big bang was the event in which space and time (known as spacetime) came into existence. There was no before this, because time didn't exist as we understand it. Permalink 3
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Reply to eli5 what is the most credible theory for what existed before the big bang? by waterboy14
As far as we can tell there was no "before" the big bang. The big bang was the event in which space and time (known as spacetime) came into existence. There was no before this, because time didn't exist as we understand it.