landlord here, nice try user but you are still going to pay this month's rent.
Hey Veeky Forums
You probably think that time is an illusion.
Time was literally created during the big bang. There literally is no before. Nothing had to have happened to trigger the big bang. Even if there was something before, it wouldn't matter because it's not part of the universe.
If you don't understand what this means, you should learn some more about modern cosmology and figure out why your assumptions are wrong.
time = change
something changed 13.8 bn years ago
not 20 bn years ago
time happened between 20 bn and 13.8 bn
maybe totally distorted pace compared the current flow of time, but change it did, thus time happened.
> where did x come from?
Meh.. we're probably part of something absolute and eternal, no beginning required (not talking about the universe, but existence)
We assume the Big Bang was the beginning of this universe, but something probably started it and we can't figure out what did it with our current knowledge...
it never happened
no beginning and no end
it always happens
chan buddhist koan
as haiku of the day
we could also just be a local expansion even within a large unobservable universe, don't ask me how the light from the rest of the universe not reaching us works, maybe the big bang created a gravity wake and "pushed" the ambient light away leaving only the ambient background noise of the creation event
there's a lot of possibilities
>local expansion event within a larger
good luck explaining the CMB with that
>time=change
nice assumption you got there faggot
Our model of logic breaks down at the moment of universe creation. Cosmogeny is unknowable to us. A more plausible question is why it is unknowable.