/sci/ - Science & Math

holy fuck no one's actually answered the question!

Well lemme do my best!

There are many different opinion as to what was there before the "big bang", but the most plausible (in my opinion) that a super-massive black hole "died", firing off a ridiculously large amounts of energy and mass. which form our universe. Now, the OBSERVABLE universe is approximately 13.7 billion light years but space itself is infinite. There is no end to it. That means that outside of our cluster of matter there could be more matter, another galactic cluster, or just nothing. Either way it stands to reason that we are not the product of a spontaneous expulsion of mass and energy, rather the recycling of that mass and energy. Thinking in terms of time as we measure it, the universe itself (infinite space and all that it contains) could be wayyyyy older than 13.7 billion years. It could be infinitely old, with no beginning or end, for all we know.