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What Came Before The Beginning of Time?
Theoretical physicist Professor Brian Greene joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning quantum physics questions. Is String Theory dead? Is our universe the only universe? What happens after the universe dies? Answers to these questions and many more await on Quantum Physics Support. #BrianGreene #Physics #StringTheory Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Listen…
@JYOTISH_.
August 6, 2026 at 10:59 am
|| HOW THIS CONVERSATION STARTS AND SOMEHOW ENDS WITH SOME MULTI UNIVERSES IS BAD ||
|| HARI OUM TAT SAT ||
|| JAGAD NA ADI HE NAH AAND ||
|| THE UNIVERSE HAS NO BEGINNING OR NO END ||
|| IT IS EXPANDING EVER OUTWARD AND WHEN ENTROPY SETS IN IT WILL CAUSE THE STARS TO GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION ||
|| THIS IS SOME VEDIC GYAN OR KNOWLEDGE ||
@Makinpeoplethink
August 6, 2026 at 11:02 am
Or Occam’s razor would simply say “God.” Anytime people appeal to the absurd notion of the multiverse, they are truly desperate to avoid a Creator God who not only made everything, but offers healing and grace through Jesus, his son.
@orangenostril
August 6, 2026 at 11:29 am
Whether or not a god exists, it DEFINITELY wouldn’t be the simplest explanation lol
@InformationIsTheEdge
August 6, 2026 at 11:33 am
You did not study what the idea of Occam’s Razor has to say for itself. Your post gives the distinct impression that your priest gave you this false precis, you never investigated the matter and you are now trying to propagate this terrible idea.
@Kessel_cant_Animate
August 6, 2026 at 12:02 pm
Let me guess you be in young earth too? We can prove that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and that the universe is near 13 billion.
@drewmichael4630
August 6, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Incredible response!
@saltycrunch
August 6, 2026 at 1:48 pm
Why do you all sound like you belong in an asylum?
@temporaryautonomouszones
August 6, 2026 at 11:03 am
Time is a construct
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Sarcasm or fake depth? The suspense is almost unbearable.
@Coraline-u8k
August 6, 2026 at 11:05 am
Great job, everything looks clean ..
@JellyJamm22
August 6, 2026 at 11:43 am
Wtf is ur pfp 😭😭
@a.b-Clay
August 6, 2026 at 1:47 pm
@JellyJamm22 It’s a bot.
@JellyJamm22
August 6, 2026 at 6:08 pm
@a.b-Clay Mmm… Yeah, I should’ve known, lmao. I thought it was a troll or some shii, I’m gonna report them
@Bjorn-Lucent
August 6, 2026 at 11:58 am
We’re in a deep hole cavern of swiss cheese that makes up matter on this dimensional plane of something that’s always existed. Time was created after the first consciousness became aware of itself.
@drewmichael4630
August 6, 2026 at 12:15 pm
It takes more faith as an atheist when thinking about explanations other than the God of the Bible
@CherishedOnion
August 6, 2026 at 12:34 pm
You used the wrong word there. It isn’t more faithful. If you separate the same mechanism into different parts than, let’s say God, there is no more faith involved.
@Kessel_cant_Animate
August 6, 2026 at 1:03 pm
We don’t use faith we use the evidence
@preston-gull
August 6, 2026 at 1:06 pm
Whether or not God exists, the questions still do. Asking about the physics of time is not satisfied by saying “well… God.”
Perhaps someday we will have the chance to ask a superior being questions about the material world. Until then, we can be satisfied with constant inquiry with the materials we do have.
@saltycrunch
August 6, 2026 at 1:48 pm
All of your silly stories fall apart when you ask a religious person “who created your God?”. They start mumbling that God was always there. How? The internal logic falls apart very quickly.
@user-mz5sl7jb8q
August 6, 2026 at 6:18 pm
@Kessel_cant_Animate Faith and science can easily coexist. Ppl that claim otherwise are being ridiculous. If I refer to empirical evidence as God ‘s miracles while adhering to how the rules of this universe functions, it satisfies both. Arguably, a sense of faith comes in handy when discussing things for which we have no answer. Such as what came ‘before’ the big bang.
@HughTube-t6l
August 6, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Time is more the one thing. CausalityTime, or if you want it, SpaceCausalityTime is what happens. SpacePassingTime is how long thi fs take, because nothing happens at once… Sorry about milt English and typing.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 1:20 pm
For a FACT, nobody knows the real answer other than some religious people and their absurd religions bringing in an invisible man in the sky thinking they solved the problem 😂
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 2:06 pm
That’s why religions have been created in the first place: make the word intelligible.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 2:20 pm
@babelbabel2419 “god is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”
@babelbabel2419
August 6, 2026 at 3:02 pm
@Sa.jkl12it’s rather pompous but ok.
@Sa.jkl12
August 6, 2026 at 3:17 pm
@babelbabel2419 it’s obv who is truly pompous when you look into egoistical religious ppl
@hamzaahmad129
August 6, 2026 at 4:05 pm
@babelbabel2419 it’s not pompous, you’re just simple minded or sensitive. Religion might have been made to make the world intelligible, but it failed to do so.
@CaptainMisery86
August 6, 2026 at 1:49 pm
Before the first big bang there was only void. A boundless expanse of nothing. Then a big bang happened and the void became 99.9+% nothing. Any number of bangs of any size can happen at any moment and at any point in the void. We could have been the first or we could be the most recent or 1000 more could have happened while I was writing this comment. No matter how many bangs happen, that boundless void will never dip below 99.9% empty
@johnemanuele8695
August 6, 2026 at 2:06 pm
Time is a concept…does a concept by definition exist?
@Mattjammar
August 6, 2026 at 3:09 pm
No, but a concept can be valid (grounded in reality) or invalid (not grounded in reality).
So, a concept exists in as much as the thing it describes exists.
So, while the word “time” is itself not actually “time itself”, the concept of “time” is grounded in the reality that all things, as far as has been observed thus far, happen sequentially as opposed to all at once or not at all.
@mschwarck
August 6, 2026 at 2:50 pm
This answer is ridiculous and obviously wrong.
@oildalestar
August 6, 2026 at 2:51 pm
The Bible says that there were nothing but the void and God
@zelddan
August 6, 2026 at 3:09 pm
Time began when I woke up today.
@Mattjammar
August 6, 2026 at 3:15 pm
Go back to bed.
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 4:51 pm
_That_ is the correct answer.
@Swampshrimp
August 6, 2026 at 4:57 pm
Thankyou for your service
@jakejensen6465
August 6, 2026 at 6:13 pm
last-thursdayism
@Fireok73
August 6, 2026 at 6:30 pm
@Mattjammar I feel you, man
@ORYTHE
August 6, 2026 at 3:37 pm
I like to imagine time isnt passing, so much as “growing” towards the end of the universe.
@BustaLung123
August 7, 2026 at 2:55 am
Neat
@naysaynever
August 6, 2026 at 4:39 pm
But you cant go back in time
@prdamico
August 8, 2026 at 10:25 am
Says who ?
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 4:54 pm
Why does this always become a thing? Time would’ve begun _at_ the Big Bang, when homeostasis was disrupted. Any “time” before that is meaningless. Stop the “high-minded” nonsense.
@user-mz5sl7jb8q
August 6, 2026 at 6:14 pm
You’re trying to sound smarter than you actually are. It’s obvious why ppl would wonder what happened before the big bang. Pretending it’s, “high-minded nonsense” just makes you look like a tryhard.
@wyzer9
August 6, 2026 at 6:47 pm
@user-mz5sl7jb8q Lol And I suppose _you_ feel like judging the character of a stranger makes _you_ “seem intelligent”? 😂 Time. Is. A. Construct. It requires measurement. Measurement would be impossible before the Big Bang, thereby making the alleged “Big Bang” the beginning of time. It’s really _not_ that difficult, ya cryhard.
@bobbin-ponytail
August 6, 2026 at 11:17 pm
@user-mz5sl7jb8q 🤣🤣🤣 “tryhard” I like that mucho much. Stealing…and thx✌🏾
@bobbin-ponytail
August 6, 2026 at 11:24 pm
You’re a douche repeating what the video said. I think that makes you purposeless, yes? By virtue of being without purpose, that also makes you meaningless, yes? Hmmm, not quite. Can you mansplain me a logical fallacy, oh won’t you plz? ok, I’m out. Rhetorical, btw.✌🏾
@prdamico
August 8, 2026 at 10:28 am
@wyzer9who said measurement was impossible before the big bang ?
You ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Joey-d8l4l
August 6, 2026 at 5:00 pm
God.
@Logic_exists
August 6, 2026 at 9:48 pm
Ok.
@Comrade-Mostafa
August 6, 2026 at 5:05 pm
He sounds just like coach greg, btw i didn’t get a thing he said so um out of 10🎉
@108Rudi
August 6, 2026 at 5:52 pm
Incoherent question. The supposition of eveything having a beginning is wrong. Time is not a thing anyway. The question would be correctly stated as “when did the relative rate of change begin?”, clearly nonsense. The real question is why is there something instead of nothing? Which is an unanswerable dilemma as “why” implies cause and effect, but the cause of something cannot be nothing.
@prdamico
August 8, 2026 at 10:26 am
If you know that energy can not be created or destroyed, then it follows that energy is eternal. That being the case, what we call time would also be eternal.
@3littlebits
August 6, 2026 at 6:09 pm
This is one of the most helpful explanations I have ever heard. Thank you.
@LD-dt1sk
August 6, 2026 at 7:21 pm
I know what was before time began but I dont have enough space in the comments to write the answer.
@gyanprakashgupt7699
August 8, 2026 at 10:01 am
Still, continuum.
@lxathu
August 6, 2026 at 7:44 pm
I understand but was it a Monday? That would explain a lot of unpleasant events.
@oonaghmarguerite6752
August 7, 2026 at 10:35 am
Laughed out loud on this one. Too true!
@gyanprakashgupt7699
August 8, 2026 at 10:01 am
I want to go to a Sunday universe now.
@MikeNeligan
August 6, 2026 at 8:38 pm
Could “The big bang” be the output of a black hole collapse..? 😂
@gyanprakashgupt7699
August 8, 2026 at 10:00 am
Why not, it’s not a bad theory.
@eb7713
August 6, 2026 at 8:39 pm
There was a wise preacher I like who said that the world ends when you die. That kind of is in the same vein of meaning to me. 😊
@barbaralynch2085
August 6, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Time never began. It all happens instantaneously, but our minds are only capable of monitoring it sequentially.
@bobbin-ponytail
August 6, 2026 at 11:15 pm
This adds nothing to the video. Was it supposed to?
@killtherapy4346
August 6, 2026 at 10:39 pm
Time didn’t begin. Time is a constant. We as linear beings, only perceive time as having a beginning present in an end. But that’s just our perception. In reality, it is always all times before during after exist simultaneously
@oyeDEB4614
August 7, 2026 at 5:56 am
Non answer.
@Starke667
August 7, 2026 at 9:31 am
Anti-time
@augustintamard3850
August 7, 2026 at 3:49 pm
I like that he’s going cranky jersey italian, don’t get me started vibes.
@ReiRidingSolo
August 8, 2026 at 2:37 am
Brian! Your TV special on String Theory way back in the day was my introduction to theoretical physics ❤❤❤
@prdamico
August 8, 2026 at 10:24 am
If energy can not be destroyed or created, it is eternal (has always been).
So there has always been energy, and logic would dictate there has always been time.
The “big bang” was not a beginning of time, just the beginning of our universe.
Just my humble opinion.
@candycayne
August 8, 2026 at 10:52 am
Please don’t laugh at me but if someone wanted to go further north, would they eventually start going south since the globe is on an axis or will the north pole ALWAYS be the most northern point regardless?
@ender25ish
August 9, 2026 at 4:33 pm
The distinction of the north pole specifically is not relevant hlin his example. Say for example replace the north pole with something physical like the oval office. Once you’re in it can you be more in the oval office than you already are? There’s simply not more oval office.
@AntonioTylerDraws
August 8, 2026 at 11:29 am
Time and space are intertwined, so time possibly began when space began.
@MattWhatsGoinOn
August 8, 2026 at 1:41 pm
Nobody has the answer to the question, “What was here before the beginning?“ because there IS no answer to that question. There was no “here“ before the/its own “beginning,” if there ever was a beginning.
Also, there is no fancy-schmancy “multiverse.” Everything that exists is right here in this universe.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. 😳
@MFBloosh
August 8, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Most likely, the big bang is something that has happened an infinite amount of times. All of the matter in space expands, then eventually slowly starts coming back together, then the big bang happens, then matter in space expands again, then comes back together again, then another big bang happens, so on and so forth.
@SparkyIslam-lu9xh
August 8, 2026 at 4:17 pm
then is time circular?
@goguyx
August 8, 2026 at 5:24 pm
Indian ancient literature some 5000 years back literally has talked about the multiverse…
@Lex-i7b
August 8, 2026 at 7:42 pm
What if reality is a donut, and both space and time are just coordinates of it… and our universe is just moving through it on some absurd path?
Would that mean that the beginning is the end and the end is also the beginning… and time travel is real?
@DashRoyalVoid
August 8, 2026 at 9:25 pm
Um… God.
@davidstevens8122
August 9, 2026 at 4:08 am
Same circular, speculative, empty “explanations” for a) what was before the Big Bang and b) when did time begin. Decade after decade of we don’t know, said with many words and pictures, ending with we don’t know.
@Lennon-k7u
August 9, 2026 at 5:03 am
The big bang wasn’t the beginning, it was just a transition
@AjDannucci
August 9, 2026 at 5:21 am
I feel like time did not exist until humans arrived to create the concept of time
@burlapknapsack
August 9, 2026 at 6:35 am
Hi, immortal being here. Before the big bang I used to poo with the door open. I just haven’t had that kind of privacy since
@Graham-e6c
August 9, 2026 at 6:54 am
Thats why people invented religion/ god to explain the unknown
@hand587
August 9, 2026 at 7:22 am
There was no time before me and there will be no time after me.
@farvision
August 9, 2026 at 10:34 am
These reports are beating a dead horse(s).
@apox5308
August 9, 2026 at 12:39 pm
The reason why we can’t answer it is because time began at the big bang. There was a before but time did not exist before: so we can’t define it or see it
@reinierdev5344
August 9, 2026 at 4:40 pm
interresting thought: when you walk north it will be in front of you…but when you pass north it will be behind you
@OU81TWO
August 9, 2026 at 9:16 pm
It’s always in front of you and behind you at the same time. Your walking on a globe.
Nice try though.
@chasingsafety796
August 10, 2026 at 12:36 am
Such a lowball analogy.
@Жан-бай
August 10, 2026 at 12:42 am
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@bmi26_hb31
August 10, 2026 at 6:37 am
How about going upward in the direction of the axis of the pole? Then you’d go one dimension higher than your 2D surface, i.e. in 3D you’d be in the next higher dimension still going north.
@dougnulton
August 11, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Once you hit the axis of the pole, regardless of height, you still can’t go “further north”. And that’s his point. If you’re at the north pole and there’s a helicopter hovering directly above you, it isn’t “more north” than you are. Once you are at the north pole, any further lateral movement has you instantly going South, until you change directions again after that
@TenTonNuke
August 10, 2026 at 3:35 pm
There cannot be a “before time” because “before” is an application of time.
@MarandaSD
August 10, 2026 at 8:32 pm
God
@Phil-m5p
August 11, 2026 at 1:31 am
You sound so smart.
I would have hoped you actually were.
@baz914
August 11, 2026 at 4:03 am
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” – Genesis 1:1. This is what happened in the beginning.
@thatoneguyRyan1
August 11, 2026 at 4:50 am
This guy obviously never read the Bible smh
@Irish-ian9
August 11, 2026 at 6:19 am
I think we are in a black hole and the bing bang is point of arrival inside. Perhaps there are billions of intelligent civilisations outside and it’s very common
@beyeringly
August 11, 2026 at 8:45 am
What does before time began mean? It means the time before time began. OH NOW I GET IT. As you get deeper into many religions, they become more metaphysical and therefore nonsensical. The same holds true for science.
@Darkuscities
August 11, 2026 at 10:07 am
Before we could have had with
@alfred3432
August 11, 2026 at 12:41 pm
We can measure the distance between the north and south, but why cant we measure the distance between east and west?
@StudioComposer
August 12, 2026 at 11:29 am
Because North and South have fixed polar points of reference, whereas East and West are relative.
@hifault
August 11, 2026 at 12:54 pm
Time is just change. Before ‘time’ no changes happened
@kalli-tr5op
August 11, 2026 at 1:02 pm
My favourite The Big Bang theory actor!
@Sevenpudding
August 11, 2026 at 1:22 pm
Kind of like when I’m forced to watch The Big Bang Theory, time stops existing
@RickBober
August 11, 2026 at 2:27 pm
Time is practically a human invented thing to use it as a well working instrument to create an illusion of pressure and tension to employees 🤫
@SimplyTakuma
August 11, 2026 at 3:30 pm
The term _Time_ was invented.
@dg8620
August 11, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Physicists do a terrible job of explaining the Big Bang. Here is the KEY point. The big bang marks the beginning of *the observable universe*. Not “the universe”. That is all it is. Space could be twice as big or a million times as big or infinite. Likewise there could have been another big bang, or a million, or could still be many many big bangs happening constantly in sections of the universe we can never observe.
TLDR: we are Pandora’s Cat, we have identified we’re in a box, we realize we cannot open the box, we therefore define the box as being “the universe” and define the origin of the box as the beginning of time.
@AdamTheJensen
August 11, 2026 at 5:49 pm
It does entertain me when people ask what existed before time. “Before” implies time! You can’t have a before unless you’re in a universe that already has time.
@vasetablechair
August 11, 2026 at 5:59 pm
Surely “north” is just relative to where you are though. Just follow a compass.
@AK06WRX
August 11, 2026 at 6:18 pm
“In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move”
@fahimalizai6442
August 11, 2026 at 8:01 pm
I have answer for the( time) someone invite me to his podcast.
And I’m serious
@Sheenifier
August 12, 2026 at 9:00 am
Before there was time, before there was anything
@StudioComposer
August 12, 2026 at 11:25 am
There are certain questions where humans simply don’t have the mental capacity to understand. Much like trying to teach electronics to a dog.
@kenwalter5502
August 12, 2026 at 4:40 pm
I first encountered this analogy through Stephen Hawking’s Universe in a Nutshell, and it’s certainly my favorite, along with “time” being not a real thing and simply an emergent subjective phenomenon. “Time” is not real, it’s a fiction of our experience in moving through the gamut of our existence in spacetime, which intersects with all other threads of experience. But we’re only able to experience one moment of that reality thread at a time, and only in a sequential order.
@beeboop1235
August 12, 2026 at 5:08 pm
Ine the beninging… in inne de… bening…ging. In… ine… de… beninging.
@mlh3293-o8d
August 12, 2026 at 6:59 pm
This assumes time is a thing at all and not just something we created to define motion
@e-money5851
August 13, 2026 at 2:52 am
You could’ve ended in 5 seconds by saying GOD created everything 🎉
@JRTjr01
August 13, 2026 at 9:59 pm
The argument is not that ‘anything that exists has a beginning’.
Thus is logically fallacious.
Imagine that every effect is a domino. I you trace every domino back, eventually, you would have to arrive at the first domino.
The argument is everything that begins to exist must have a cause of it’s existence.
Just like that first domino must have something that started it falling.
The unmotivated, mover.
@3zar20
August 13, 2026 at 10:33 pm
There’s no “before the beginning” it’s called the beginning for a reason 😂