Most scientists are in agreement that our universe began with an almighty explosion almost 14 billion years ago. It began as an invisible speck of infinite energy in the middle of nothing. Then within an instant, the universe became a huge cosmological mess, billions and billions of miles wide. In a fraction of a second, what we now call the universe was filled with all the matter necessary to make the sun, the earth, the moon, and of course us. But there’s so much more, because our telescopes only allow us to gaze at a small fraction of the universe, as a matter of fact, nobody knows how wide or deep it is.

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The Big Bang itself is shrouded in mystery, in fact many remain suspicious and sceptical about whether a Big Bang occurred at all, despite the fact that scientists broadly agree that the evidence for the ultimate explosion is all around us. Indeed, a cosmologist called Robert Dickie picked up what is thought to be the lingering echo of the biggest bang in history using a highly sensitive space microphone.

But while many aspects of the Big Bang remain a mystery, what about before the Big Bang; was space just a huge empty, timeless vacuum. Or is our universe just the next in line of an unlimited number of universes. What about parallel universes? Did the Big Bang create our universe and an infinite number of parallel universes with their own different laws of fundamental physics, creating not just a universe but a multiverse? Or, perhaps scariest of all, is there some form of superior intelligence that created our universe and life on Earth? think of the Matrix on a bigger scale? Ultimately, this appears a mystery that we’ll never to solve fully, simply because we cannot travel back in time, and while scientists are attempting to recreate the Big Bang explosion, such experiments are fraught with danger, and are probably best avoided.

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