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 incorrect conception is that there was this big void of “space” and somewhere in that void a big bang occurred which “threw” stuff out and created the universe.

The slightly more correct view is that everything including what we call “space” was created in the big bang. All that space did not exist prior to the big bang. There is no eternal space which was empty “before” the big bang and the big bang just filled it up with stuff. Time and space were created from a very small point which we call the big bang and that space itself inflated (as it continues to) over time. So everything that we experience including distance and time and all matter was created in the big bang.