# Before the Big Bang

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/before-the-big-bang/79397
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**Created:** [February 13, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/before-the-big-bang/79397 "2005-02-13T20:57:49Z")
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### Author: ![SmoothDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SmoothDime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SmoothDime)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/before-the-big-bang/79397/1 "2005-02-13T20:57:49Z")

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What was going on before the big bang?

Was the previous universe contracting back to a single point in space?

Is that how it works…there’s this single point in space that pulses a new universe every 100 billion years only to have it all collapse back on itself?