{"id":218346,"date":"2025-07-20T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/before-the-big-bang-what-came-before-time"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:06:50","slug":"before-the-big-bang-what-came-before-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/before-the-big-bang-what-came-before-time","title":{"rendered":"Before the Big Bang \u2014 What Came Before Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Before the Big Bang - What Came Before Time?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lnm802_hkGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join us as we journey beyond the birth of the universe to unravel the mysteries of what might have preceded the Big Bang\u2014and whether time itself had a beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Watch my exclusive video Mass Drivers on the Moon: <a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/videos\/isaacarthur-\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/videos\/isaacarthur\u2013<\/a>\u2026<br \/> Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur<\/a>.<br \/> Get a Lifetime Membership to Nebula for only $300: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/lifetime?ref=isa\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/lifetime?ref=isa<\/a>\u2026<br \/> Use the link <a href=\"https:\/\/gift.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur\">https:\/\/gift.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur<\/a> to give a year of Nebula to a friend for just $36.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net\">http:\/\/www.isaacarthur.net<\/a>.<br \/> Join Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur\">https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur<\/a>.<br \/> Support us on Patreon: \/ isaacarthur.<br \/> Support us on Subscribestar: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/isaac-a\">https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/isaac-a<\/a>\u2026<br \/> Facebook Group: \/ 1583992725237264<br \/> Reddit: \/ isaacarthur.<br \/> Twitter: \/ isaac_a_arthur on Twitter and RT our future content.<br \/> SFIA Discord Server: \/ discord.<\/p>\n<p>Credits:<br \/> Before the Big Bang \u2014 What Came Before Time?<br \/> Episode 738; July 20, 2025<br \/> Written, Produced &amp; Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.<br \/> Select imagery\/video supplied by Getty Images.<br \/> Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound <a href=\"http:\/\/epidemicsound.com\/creator\">http:\/\/epidemicsound.com\/creator<\/a>.<br \/> 0:00 Intro Asking the Impossible.<br \/> 2:08 The Limits of Time and Spacetime.<br \/> 7:45 Beyond the Big Bang: Alternate Beginnings.<br \/> 14:38 Other Realities: Higher Dimensions and Shadow Universes.<br \/> 18:28 Emergent Time.<br \/> 22:38 Bubble Collisions and Multiverse Scars.<br \/> 24:44 Conclusion: What Came Before Time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us as we journey beyond the birth of the universe to unravel the mysteries of what might have preceded the Big Bang\u2014and whether time itself had a beginning. Watch my exclusive video Mass Drivers on the Moon: https:\/\/nebula.tv\/videos\/isaacarthur\u2013\u2026 Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https:\/\/go.nebula.tv\/isaacarthur. Get a Lifetime Membership [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}