“There was no time before big bang” – what does that mean?
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Time is the measurement of an object’s duration from one place to another and/or from one state of being to another. For example, you traveled from point A to point B in X amount of time or you are X years old. Because of the four fundamental forces of nature nothing is ever still and everything is always changing state within our concept of space. This is why in physics time cannot be separated from space and is in fact called space/time. Before the Big Bang there was no where to go because there was no distance between anything nor was there a change in a state of being because matter did not yet exist. While many scientists believe that everything was condensed to a single point before the Big Bang, the fact still remains. Whether nothing existed, or everything that does now exist existed at a single point, there was no where to go and nothing changed because matter as we know it did not exist. If there is no matter then there is nothing to measure. If there is nothing to measure then to have a duration of existence and travel from state of being A to state of being B did not exist and could not have existed. Either way, you need matter relative to space to have a duration of existence within and on that space therefore time could not have existed.
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