• Question: is there life before the Big Bang?

    Asked by loadingprofile to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Not that we know of. The current belief is that nothing existed at all before the Big Bang, not even Time.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Maybe.
      We know that the Big Bang may well be followed by a Big Crunch, when everything falls back together again (re-attracted by gravity). Presumably then we could have another Big Bang and so on.
      In this sort of (plausible) cyclical sense, there could well be life before the Big Bang and after the Big Crunch.
      However, we don’t know – it’s possible.

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