If space itself was created during the Big Bang, what preceded it and what is it expanding into?

Answer 1

That's a good question. No one knows the answer, and chances are very good that no one will know the answer in our lifetimes. In fact chances are good that no one will ever know the answer. I'm not being pessimistic I'm just saying we can only speculate about what we can't observe.

Answer 2

People do actually have a good idea. Prior to the big bang there was neither space, nor matter nor time.

For a full, logical Paul Davies Book God And The New Physics. It explains it all in detail within less than 60 pages.

Answer 3

that is a pretty crazy thing to think about. But if the universe is expanding out at its edge into a nothingness there is a way that i try to comprehend or attempt to grasp the concept of nothingness.

Close your eyes right now and imagine yourself in a small room..........

now walk out the door into a hallway..

now this may be a weird explanation for a lot of you but before i told you to walk out the door into the hallway, nothing existed outside of that room. Its just your thoughts but this is how i relate the concept of nothingness because your thought created something where there was nothing to exist.

Answer 4

Singularity preceded it. It's not expanding into anything. It is as big as it is at any given moment with nothing beyond.

Answer 5

the big bang is essentially a big mass of energy
where this ENERGY comes from
nobody knows
space is nothing and nothing cannot expand nor contract

Answer 6

nothing. if there is no space there is nothing. its hard for you and everyone else to comprehend, actually its impossible. the human brain can understand a lack of matter, but the lack of space to put that matter is impossible to comprehend.