What came before the big bang?

The universe began with the Big Bang, but there was something before it, and we can imagine what that might have been like.

Imagine you're playing with a super stretchy balloon. The surface of the balloon is like our universe. When you blow up the balloon, everything on its surface moves away from each other, just like how galaxies move apart in our expanding universe.

Now, before the Big Bang, the balloon was really small, so small that it was almost a single point. It was squeezed together incredibly tightly, like when you squish a soft ball into your palm.

Then, poof! The balloon started to stretch and expand, that's what we call the Big Bang. Everything around us began from that tiny, squeezed-up point.

So before the Big Bang wasn’t nothing; it was something very small, very tight, and full of energy, just waiting to burst into a huge, expanding universe! The universe began with the Big Bang, but there was something before it, and we can imagine what that might have been like.

Imagine you're playing with a super stretchy balloon. The surface of the balloon is like our universe. When you blow up the balloon, everything on its surface moves away from each other, just like how galaxies move apart in our expanding universe.

Now, before the Big Bang, the balloon was really small, so small that it was almost a single point. It was squeezed together incredibly tightly, like when you squish a soft ball into your palm.

Then, poof! The balloon started to stretch and expand, that's what we call the Big Bang. Everything around us began from that tiny, squeezed-up point.

So before the Big Bang wasn’t nothing; it was something very small, very tight, and full of energy, just waiting to burst into a huge, expanding universe!