• Question: before the big bang, what was there?

    Asked by Alfie G to Heather, Helen, Hugh, Jane, Julian on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Helen Johnson

      Helen Johnson answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Absolute nothingness! 😮 Not even time.

    • Photo: Julian Onions

      Julian Onions answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Its a tricky question to answer, because as Helen says time started with the big bang. It’s a sort of none question when framed like that, like asking what is North of the North pole? No matter which way you go when you get to the North pole, you don’t get any more Northerly.

      Stephen Hawkings and others have ideas about other universes colliding, and as a result they made this universe. Its a very difficult area to even think about, let alone prove!

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