Because there was always something in the universe nothing can come or go, it always been here.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

technically there could not be a "before the big bang"

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The universe started with the Big Bang. The people who study space, the universe, mathematicians and many more theorize that there was nothing before that (which our minds cannot comprehend because 'nothing' to us would be black or white space which is still something since there is shade). Also, the poster above me is correct. If everything started with the Big Bang (including time), then there wasn't before a Big Bang making the Big Bang, time, space and the Universe more complicated to understand.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oh and.. I got a brain fart thinking about this.. :(

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The part I find really hard to comprehend (including the nothingness before the Big Bang... but that's just SUPER crazy) is that if the universe is always expanding, and matter bends space and time (and therefore bends the universe) there has to be room of some sort for the universe to bend and expand into. However, the universe is all encompassing, so there can't be anything outside the universe, which means that the universe is expanding into literally nothing, so the universe doesn't really have an end. That gives me a total braingasm just thinking about all of that. I mean, we say that there is "nothing" in that empty box but, really, there is a ton of shit in there! There's atoms and molecules and all kinds of stuff... but not outside of the universe... that never really ends... but has to because you can't expand on a never-ending thing... woah.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I read somewhere that asking "what came before the big bang?" was like asking "what's north of the north pole?". The answer is nothing, but trying to imagine what 'nothing' would look like is completely missing the point.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The Big Bang does not exist.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

no, it doesn't. It did, but that was a couple billion years ago.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

THE BIG BANG THEORY!!!

by Anonymous 14 years ago