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Did the ''Big Bang'' create time and space or...?

Satans_Serrated_Edge

Satans_Serrated_Edge

Deicidal
Deidre said:
...or did time and space exist, before the Big Bang? What existed before the Big Bang? I've been reading that the universe came about as a ''cyclical event,'' but what prompted the very first event?

And I'm not really going down the 'God of the gaps' avenue, rather I'm asking could something...anything...have been in existence before the Big Bang? I don't believe that the universe is ''uncaused.''

I'm just imagining...a beginning before a beginning. Could that be?
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This is a problem of language rather than philosophy. We tend to think, write and speak in terms of both tense(past/future/present) and spacial dimension.

If time and space are properties of matter, then our terms of explanation and understanding are useless, and the appropriate ones, unknown and we're they to be known, indecipherable and alien.

Everything we know and are are of 4 dimensions.

As for me, I tend to think something 'happened' (which already requires 4d thinking which probably doesn't even apply) that caused(I did it again) the elements of time and space to emerge(and again) as properties(and again) of what was before(and again).

We simply lack the language to deal with this problem.
 
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