I mean if I drop a rock into a lake, its makes circles and the outermost circles are the oldest. Or if I blow something up, the furthest debris is the oldest.
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Because the big bang was not an explosion of matter into an empty space. The name is pretty misleading.
The big bang was space itself expanding.
And that’s really damn hard to wrap our brains around. Human brains evolved to work here in Middle World where a kilometer is a long distance, a centimeter is a short distance, a second is a short time and a year is a long time. We don’t deal well with stuff that’s murch removed from that.
But space and time were all there in the beginning, just squeezed really darn tight.
Space expands everywhere, so anywhere you stand you see infinity stretching out, and space expanding out around you. We feel that we’re at the center of the universe because EVERYTHING is at the center of the universe. Or because center is a null concept when we’re talking about universes, take your pick.
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