Will we ever know if there was something before the big bang?NEWS | 27 February 2026The reason that we will never know if there was something before the Big Bang is that time is merely an illusion. The time history of the Big Bang universe is built upon the presumption that the photon of light emitted from a galaxy far away (Hubble observations) takes billions of years to reach our telescopes. The fact, as per relativity theory, is that the photon itself experiences no time (or distance) in reaching us. If we ask the messenger photon bringing us the information about the observed galaxy, it will tell us that there is no time delay, nor any distance involved during its journey from the seemingly far away galaxy to earth. The Big Bang theory shoots the messenger and asserts that it took billions of years of time and billions of lightyears of travel distance misrepresenting the reality of the universe. I would like to bring attention to – “Why Light Doesn’t Move” (https://youtu.be/x_wKkqQeTMg?si=2fZlRjy0ELyJWSQJ) by Prof. Leonard Susskind to understand the illusory time. However, the Big Bang theory extrapolates the observations of the universe (CMB, expansion data) into the past using the illusory time history to raise and answer the imaginary questions of the moment of Big Bang and what came before it. It is apparent that there could be no answers to these questions, since the questions are related to a fairy tale history of Big Bang. As referenced in my previous post, there are approximately 25 unresolved foundational issues (including the recent Hubble Tension and unexpected mature galaxies observed in the so-called early universe) in modern physics and cosmology. Time is probably the most fundamental misconceived foundational issue that may be the root cause of many of the other issues.
To the editors of Scientific American:
The reputed magazines, such as Scientific American, could play an important and significant role in raising awareness of the scientific community as well as public towards possible alternative non-paradoxical approaches to science to reveal the ultimate reality of the universe. The long list of unresolved paradoxes and the Grand Fragmentation of the universal reality into incomprehensible Multiple Universes are shattering hopes of Grand Unification pointing to a possible dead end of science. It is about time to end the mystery of the “Illusory TIME”.Author: Sarah Scoles. Source
