• Question: where did the speck of dust come from in the big bang?

    Asked by tammysmutna to Matt, Claire, Rob, Sam on 17 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by william102000.
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      Matthew Pankhurst answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      You know, that is one of the biggest questions people have ever asked – what was before the big bang?! We simply don’t know right now. Maybe it was a speck of dust – maybe it was a universe that collapsed on itself and made the biggest black hole ever. The thing is, time in the universe we are in essentially started when the big bang happened, so whatever was there was before time started! Weird! In the words of Douglas Adams, who is a very good and clever and funny author “in the beginning there was nothing, which then exploded”. Keep thinking big thoughts 🙂

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