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How could the big bang be big if there was nothing around it?

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Our concept of the "big bang" is entirely theoretical; it was a long time ago, and there was nobody around to watch. Scientists generally agree on the broad outlines of what happened, and differ dramatically in the details. But according to our mathematical imaginings, not only was there no-thing around it, but the entire idea of "around" was probably meaningless as well. There was no-thing, no space, no time, and none of the normal ideas that we associate with existence or substance or emptiness. We cannot even say if the physical "laws" that we are accustomed to existed, or if they, too, were a creation of the nature of the big bang.

But in the instant of the "big bang", it FILLED THE UNIVERSE- and that's a pretty "big" bang.

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