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

The thing that’s tricky about it is that we sort of can’t help but visualize it from the outside, looking at a tiny point that blew up and turned into stars and space and all that stuff, but the reality of the situation is that the perspective we’re imagining didn’t, and couldn’t, exist.

There was literally nowhere for us to “stand” to get this perspective. There was no “where” outside that tiny initial point. “Everywhere” was within some really tiny distance of everywhere else. So when that tiny point started expanding, it necessarily happened everywhere, because that’s all the “where” there was.

Hopefully that didn’t confuse you further.