re: Big Bang theory wrong? Star older than Universe discovered - threat of ‘scientific crisis’

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I understand that it is almost incomprehensible for our minds to grasp, but I just don’t get how there was nothing and then something. I’m not using this to argue in favor of a god

I just literally cannot fathom the following 2 concepts

A) something always existing.....never having a beginning

B) there being nothing.....and then something.

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I think it's all theoretical speculation, and I don't pretend to know the current favorite.

What I've seen suggested in some Sci Fi, is that things aren't infinite, and eventually gravity takes over. Expansion stops, black holes slowly suck everything up including each other, and everything becomes one primordial black hole. When the last bit of matter goes in, the mass reaches critical point, and boom- a Big Bang. Endless loop.

Not sure something could exist from a prior universe, as you'd assume a big bang would utterly destroy it. And that's assuming it could survive the near-infinite black hole pulling at it before the bang.

Re the big bang and religion, there's the line of thought that God actually explained the big bang to ancient mankind, and their primitive intellect couldn't grasp beyond "let there be Light".