What Happened Before the Big Bang?

A question of theology, philosophy, and quantum physics

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So what did happen before the Big Bang?

The big bang was an explosion of an extremely small, hot, and dense body of matter that, according to some cosmological theories, gave rise to the universe between 12 and 20 billion years ago. Essentially it is considered the ultimate creative force or being behind the universe.

But isn’t there always something that happens or exists before the “first thing”?

This is the big question? What happened before the Big Bang? The exploration of this very question is called “the question of the First Cause”.

Throughout-history great thinkers, theologians, and philosophers have all grappled with this question, even before the idea of the Big Bang was ever considered.

There are many different arguments for various answers to this question yet the basic premises of all of these arguments involve the concept of causation.