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Originally Posted by Leto
Prior to the beginning of the universe, what was there?
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This assumes there was a beginning to the universe. If you mean the big bang, occurrences may very well have preceded the big bang. We don't know. Yet. One popular theory says that there have always been big bangs following big crunches following big bangs and so on. A sort of chicken/egg conundrum on a mass scale.
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Originally Posted by Leto
what began the big bang (if big bang is current science)?
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There's a lot of speculation, but we probably won't be getting any decently backable answers until we have more data.
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Originally Posted by pig
i highly doubt that scientific inquiry will ever come to an end...if i recall correctly, in the period after newtonian physics and prior to that of relativity / quantum etc - the feeling was that the universe was just a big set of billiard balls. all the basic fundamental relationships were known, and the rest was just fleshing it out....then whoops!: there's all this other stuff to consider.
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You're correct.
BTW, "why" the universe is here is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. Science gives us the how, not the why. Well psychology can provide the why, but that's another thread.