Was there a 'before' the Big Bang? Jim Al-Khalili on the mind-bogglingness of time

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In this excerpt from "On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick," author and theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili examines the possibility of time starting before the Big Bang, with the cosmological theory of eternal inflation.

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  • Reported by Live Science and published Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:56:08 UTC.

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