Hard to wrap my mind around this one. Anyone have any good analogies that fit?
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Just to answer this question and another, very similar, question at the same time: Imagine two gigantic cakes are catapulted toward each other.
It may be more than two cakes, but the metaphor still works.
(And where the cakes came from matters, as well as the catapults, but those are questions for a different day.)
So, you have two cakes: One chocolate, and one yellow (Because other flavors suck. Yeah, I said it.)
One cake is some of the ingredients of our universe. The other cake is the other ingredients of our universe. But they haven’t mixed yet, so our universe isn’t actually yet a thing.
So they fly toward each other at a crazy speed, because of being thrown by the catapults, and they slam into each other. There isn’t really a single point of contact. They both kinda just mush into each other and explode in all directions.
Thus, the Big Bang.
And this also explains the ‘What about before?’ question, because Time only existed in one of the cakes. There is no such as ‘Before’ the Big Bang, because Time didn’t even exist in our universe yet, because the universe, itself, didn’t exist until after the Big Bang.
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