• Question: What created matter, before the big band, before any state of matter existed, what happened to make it?

    Asked by anon-181141 on 4 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-181927.
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      Claudia Bonfio answered on 4 Jun 2018:

      I am not an expert on it, but I’ll try to give you an idea…
      According to the Big Bang theory, all the matter in the cosmos existed in a “singularity”, a form smaller than a subatomic particle (I guess you can think of it as a single point).
      According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, this singularity possessed all the mass in the universe, effectively bringing time to a standstill. So, time only came into being when the primordial singularity expanded toward its current size and shape.
      Hope it is not too difficult =)

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