What Was There Before The Big Bang?

Sleep better tonight — try Dozely free for 7 days: https://dozely.net/?a=shad&c=science-with-... Before the Big Bang, there was no time, no space, and no darkness waiting for the lights to turn on. Asking what came before the universe began is like looking for what lies north of the North Pole, as the very concept of time collapses. Tonight, you are invited to witness the first microsecond of our reality, where everything we know emerged from a state of infinite density. Join us on an immersive journey to the dawn of existence to understand how the universe became everything. Let your mind drift into the deep silence of the early cosmos and find rest. Music by Liborio Conti Try Dozely, my ad-free sleep app — join the early-access waitlist: https://dozely.146-0-74-160.sslip.io/go?a=... 0:00 Before Time Existed: The Singularity Paradox 4:53 Planck Time to the First Microsecond: When Physics Began 9:02 Inflation: The Universe Doubles 90 Times in One Microsecond 13:17 The Quark-Gluon Plasma: A Soup of Pure Energy 17:32 The Four Forces Emerge: Symmetry Breaking Begins 21:53 Photons Born and Destroyed: The Sea of Light 25:44 The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry: The Accident We Owe Our Existence To 29:56 The Quark Epoch Ends: Matter Takes Hold 33:27 One Microsecond: The Temperature Cliff 37:18 The First Chemistry: Primordial Nucleosynthesis in the First Three Seconds 41:37 The Unknowns: What Remains Forever Beyond Our Reach 46:23 How We Know: Reading the Universe's First Light 50:58 Quantum Fluctuations in the Early Universe 55:37 The Higgs Field and the Origin of Mass 1:00:04 Spacetime Geometry and Cosmic Curvature