I’ve given up trying to explain it to people as an explosion. Media and innate biases make people view that word as a “kaboom” and form a mental picture.
I tell people that the universe was likely always infinite. In the beginning it was infinitely dense and essentially a singularity, but that singularity wasn’t a point in space like a black hole, it was a everything and everywhere. The universe was ultra dense, infinite energy, then all at once, the whole thing got bigger like the infinite hotel paradox, an infinite space can get bigger. So all the whole infinite space just stretched out in all directions, making space open up and the energy less dense.
I’ve given up trying to explain it to people as an explosion. Media and innate biases make people view that word as a “kaboom” and form a mental picture.
I tell people that the universe was likely always infinite. In the beginning it was infinitely dense and essentially a singularity, but that singularity wasn’t a point in space like a black hole, it was a everything and everywhere. The universe was ultra dense, infinite energy, then all at once, the whole thing got bigger like the infinite hotel paradox, an infinite space can get bigger. So all the whole infinite space just stretched out in all directions, making space open up and the energy less dense.