It didn't happen "When" as there was no time.
It didn't happen "Where" as there was no space.
Time
and space are dimensions and there are further dimensions beyond the
ones we perceive, so "it didn't happen where or when" as there were no
dimensions.
So the term "happen" is meaningless.
It was not the "cause" and the afterward the "effect" as, being dimensionless, causality did not exist.
The human mind has evolved to perceive causality but without the use of the mind, causality does not exist.
Following
causality back then to an inferred start point is false method and will
only, at best, satisfy the mind and not provide a true answer which
must in fact be absent of causality as it is absent of dimensions.
Many
of us are happy with the idea of the universe being infinite. If not
happy with infinite then we must be left wondering what the finite
universe is within, and so we must also deduce from there infinity.
To
visualise the Big Bang many minds will picture empty space and a zero
point exploding. This is what nearly all animations show also but is
absolutely false.
The universe as is, by our best
current measurements, "expanding and accelerating in its expansion" so
all lumps of stuff, galaxies and so on, are becoming more widely spaced.
The galaxies are not expanding though. We visualise this by placing
coins on a rubber sheet to represent galaxies as we stretch the sheet to
show space expanding. Oddly though we have witnessed galaxies in space
colliding and we predict our nearest neighbouring galaxy will collide
with us. When galaxies collide though it is rarely catastrophic as most
stuff is so far apart that very little hits anything else. We result in
either one larger galaxy or the two carry on with just a change in
shape.
So we see some galaxies collide but the large
majority spacing apart. Not just moving apart but accelerating apart. We
naturally infer with our minds that what is now big and expanding must
have once been small. Yet we say the universe is "infinite" and not
"finitely big and getting bigger".
We model the
expansion as something growing out into an infinite space but this is
not the case. As with the Big Bang which did not happen in space but
gave birth to space, so the idea of 'stuff' now expanding into
nothingness, is a false view.
What we are shown by
cosmological observation is that space is coming into being. What we are
shown from quantum theory is that empty space is not empty and it teems
with virtual particles coming into and out of existence. A very curious
thing which has come about from these two curious things is that: When
two virtual particles come into being they then rush to annihilate but
if space is accelerating in its expansion they can often be left in
existence and so space coming into being then brings about "something
from nothing" and it leaves behind particles, stuff and energy.
Perhaps
then The Big Bang was not such a "bang" in a "place" (as we have seen,
no place or time for that bang could exist previous to it) but instead
the first calculated occurrence of expansion, where nothing came to be
something.
Our minds work very well with dualism. As
we saw earlier they love the dualism of cause and effect. We can then
easily see how "nothing" naturally leads to "something". This model then
is perhaps acceptable as it fits our predisposed framework, it is also
though, measurably, true.
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