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Originally Posted by Mutt
If the answer is 'nothing', define 'nothing' and how can something come from nothing?
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I would suggest reading Stephen Hawkings book "A Brief History of Time."
It's very well written and easily understandable by anyone with no former education in physics. Hawking explains that before the bb, there was the singularity, which is or was basically the very same thing as what you would find beyond the event horizon of a black hole. (I paraphrased that. A better general understanding can be gained by reading the book.)
So far as something from nothing, you don't need anything to get a lot of things according to quantum and particle physics. On a sub-atomic level there's so much happening so quickly and so randomly that it's possible for something to not exist, then exist, then exist in two places at the same time, then not exist again, or appear somewhere else entirely. The big bang idea is 100% possible.
I'll admit absolute ignorance to the above, however. My own education did not go in that direction, and out of high school I made it a priority to avoid math as much as possible in college. I wish I hadn't, because I'd really love to understand more about subatomic physics.