What was Before the Big Bang? An Identical, Reversed Universe: "

So what did exist before the Big Bang? This question would normally belong in the realms of deep philosophical thinking; the laws of physics have no right to probe beyond the Big Bang barrier. There can be no understanding of what was there before. We have no experience, no observational capability and no way of travelling back through it (we can't even calculate it), so how can physicists even begin to think they can answer this question? Well, a new study of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is challenging this view, perhaps there is a way of looking into the pre-Big Bang 'universe'. And the conclusion? The Big Bang was more of a 'Big Bounce', and the pre-bounce universe had the same physics as our universe… just backwards… Confused? I am…

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