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The Big Bang Didn’t Start Everything

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the true beginning of everything? In this video, we explore the biggest mysteries at the edge of modern cosmology: ancient James Webb galaxies that formed too fast, colossal structures like the Big Ring and Giant Arc, new DESI data suggesting dark energy may be changing over time, and the terrifying problem of the singularity. From the Cosmic Microwave Background and dark matter to eternal inflation, the holographic principle, the Big Bounce, and Roger Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, this is a journey into what may have existed before the Big Bang - and why the beginning of time might be stranger than we ever imagined. Sources and scientific references: JADES-GS-z14-0 / early galaxies: Carniani et al. (2024), A shining cosmic dawn: spectroscopic confirmation of two luminous galaxies at z 14 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18485. Big Ring and Giant Arc: Lopez et al. (2022), A Giant Arc on the Sky at z ~ 0.8 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875 DESI dark energy results: DESI Collaboration (2024), DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03002 Eternal inflation: Guth (2007), Eternal inflation and its implications - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702178 Holographic principle / AdS-CFT: Maldacena (1998), The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200 Temporal singularities: Lieu (2025), Are dark matter and dark energy omnipresent? - https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08733 Big Bounce / cyclic universe: Steinhardt & Turok (2002), A Cyclic Model of the Universe - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111098 Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Gurzadyan & Penrose (2013), On CCC-predicted concentric low-variance circles in the CMB sky - https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5162