Question: How do you think time was created?

Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 17 Jun 2014:

Honestly, I do not know. This is about one of the hardest question you can ask a physicist.

The Big Bang scenario only says that at the precise point of the Big Bang, all of the infinite space and time was created everywhere simultaneously, out of literally nothing. But it doesn’t say what caused the Big Bang, why it happened, or why space and time were created.

To think of a theory that could explain how time was created is EXTREMELY hard, because it requires to think somehow outside time. I don’t think any human is really able to do that, because our brains only work inside time. Maybe one day we will figure it out, though. I know few physicists who have been trying to understand this for many years. But needless to say, it’s very hard!