how can there be a time before “time” existed?
In: Physics
Time only exists because of space. Before space existed time couldn’t exist.
To think about it another way, two objects can’t occupy the same space at once. If I am sitting in my chair, you can’t also be sitting in my chair because I am using it right now. (You could sit on me but that is something different.). You would have to sit before or after me (at a different time). If you think about what time is, it is a way to explain where you are in any space or location. The two are linked.
So before space existed pre Big Bang, there was no time as everything shared the same space.
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