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 are theories that there was a universe before the big bang (some say the expansion weakened until gravity drew it all back together into that single point). When people say the universe isnt expanding, it’s not like the water from a knocked glass spreading out across a table – there is no “table” in that edpansion of the universe. Instead of the galaxies just moving into further away parts of space, the space between gagalxies itself is what expands. So beyond the universe, there would be a true void, which humans simply can’t comprehend because all the experiences we can draw from have involved there being something. It’s like when athiests try and comprehend what happens after death: we have always been alive, and even if we’ve experienced times of lessened thought and stimuli, there has never truly been nothing
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