How something can come from nothing

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Jay520 said:

BenVTrigger said:

Its one in the same thing. Big Bgang isnt the origin as the universe existed prior to it just in a different state.  Thus Big Bang transformed the Universe it didnt create it.  For all we inow the Universe is infinite and goes through all sorts of different cycles.  We litteraly know nothing prior to Big Bang

What if time was created at the same time as the big bang?

No, you need that conversion of energy so the singularity had to exist before something triggered it to expand out.  And to Ben, you're playing with Semantics, which is fair, but we have a good idea on where our universe came from.  We just don't know what created a singularity of, as my astrophysics teacher said, infinite mass (Not sure how infinite it can be if matter is finite in the universe).  Nor do we know what set it off to expand out.