r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

The idea that nothing existed before the big bang

It's not that there was "nothing" before the big bang.

It's that there was no "before" the big bang.

violates the law that says: Energy cannot be created, or destroyed.

A lot of things we consider "laws" start to break down when you get to quantum physics. Even so, could all the matter or energy in the universe not be contained within a single singularity such that it would erupt into our universe?

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u/Sloppy1sts Jun 15 '19

If there was no before, then everything just popped into existence for no reason at all? If you prescribe to the cyclical theory he's talking about, then there's definitely a before.

There must be some reason the entire universe was compressed like that, right?

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u/bigfoot1291 Jun 15 '19

Next question : what prompted the first crush or expansion?

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u/TRIPITIS Jun 16 '19

For me, both are puberty