when people say the big bang was the creation of the universe, do they mean there was an infinite vast outer space that existed and the big bang happened in said space and created everything? OR do they mean there was literally just true nothingness, no space. which i guess humans cant comprehend ?? and the big bang happened which created outer space and everything in it?
if it’s the latter….how does one try to conceptualize absolute nothingness?
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There is a special term for people who say the big bang created the universe: wrong. The big bang, and more correctly cosmic inflation, says nothing about how the universe was created. It only describes the universe from a very, very early period. What happened before that isn’t described by any known theories. We will likely need a theory of quantum gravity before we can see any earlier than what inflation tells us.
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