My apologies if this is a duplicate question. I could not find it. Why do we think space-time itself started at the BB? Or to word it another way, could space-time have always existed infinitely in time but only matter have 'started' in the BB?
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I never thought the big bang started time, and as far as I know no one has stated that it did start then.
The inability to detect anything from before the big bang does not mean nothing existed. My personal theory (without a theoretical physics degree) is that what we see is not the first big bang, but instead one of an infinite amount of them in an infinite universe. Given infinite space and infinite time, there are other big bangs happening right now just so far out of our observational range we cannot and may never detect them. Matter is continuously converted to and from energy in an infinite loop. This is the nature of infinity right?
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