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Events in the Universe are often dated from the Big Bang. But the fact is, NOBODY KNOWS what (if anything) happened before the Big Bang. The Big Bang MAY have been the start of time itself; but it is possible that the Universe existed (in some form) forever in the past.

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If there was no universe or plants where did the big bang happen?

It happened in the center of the universe, for which it is still expanding on the universe.


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