>>14208673I’d argue the opposite. the answer to
>what caused the big bangis “everything”.
a common misunderstanding about the big bang is that the singularity prior to cosmic “inflation” was itself a distinct object rather than everything that exists right now but with infinite density at every coordinate. imagine right now that any given point in the universe has a tremendously low energy density, and imagine you could manipulate a lever that would exponentially raise the energy density of every point in the universe. the singularity was that lever set to the maximum, and apparently some degree of instability caused it to decay into the universe as we know it.
for theologians, one could say that God blew a bubble. and then it popped.
