• Question: What do think was before the big bang

    Asked by to Claire on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Claire Shooter answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      It boggles my mind so much I have to sit down and eat a pringle sandwich every time I think about it.
      I like the current theory that the ‘Big Bang’ was preceded by the ‘Big Crunch’ where everything from the last iteration of the universe stopped expanding and finally fell back into itself, with such a force that it resulted in the ‘Big Bang’. This will happen again and again in a never ending cycle of universes, apparently. Where all that stuff came from in the first place, I don’t know – apparently it just is.

      To quote Terry Pratchett: “In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded”

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