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What went on before the big bang?

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The big bang hypothesis is just that, a hypothesis, and a hypothesis based on an extrapolation of an explanation of a Doppler frequency shift that is itself an unable to be proved hypothesis. So asking what went on before the big bang is meaningless and of course unanswerable. Consider this: The expressions, before and after imply the measure of time. Time did not exist before the BB, therefore the question is nonsensical. We can only spreak of 'after' the BB. Not before! Setting aside the issue of evolution and looking just at the Big Bang, the Big Bang created both space and time. It created the fabric we call spacetime in modern physics. It's not like the Big Bang happened in an "empty universe" that was here already with time passing in the void. No, the Big Bang actually "created the space" in which it now expands. And it created the time, too. These ideas are consequences of the Big Bang theory, and it is currently the best scientific way we have to explain the universe, explain how it formed and became what we can see all around us.

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