The Big Bang did not start as a singular point but happened everywhere at once.

Question

Hard to wrap my mind around this one. Anyone have any good analogies that fit?

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Answer 1

Think of the universe like a balloon. When empty, the universe is small, but nothing outside of it is the universe. Only the balloon exists.

Then you blow it up to simulate the expansion of the universe post big bang. The balloon is bigger now. The amount of rubber in the balloon hasn’t changed, but it takes up for more space.

This isn’t a perfect analogy, but this can be difficult to grasp right away without a mathematical context to explain it in, and is sometimes easier to come back to over time to grasp