Thats a popular theory - but the truth is The Universe is infinite and eternal. Space can not be created or destroyed, and it extends forever. The Big Bang just describes how everything we can see got there.

I've tried three times now to make that link work. Search for Olbers' Paradox on wikipedia.

What people don't know is that Space expanded faster than the speed of light so we can only see ~14 billion light years into space. There could be a star at every point of the dark sky but they're 14.1 billion light years away, therefore we can't see their light yet.

I commented this here but it applies to yours; Before the bang there was no time so there is no way to perceive a "before" time, Hawking himself explains it as so and probably better than I can.

Very good comment.

The Universe has no conscience. - Where is that evidence? Could you provide a link?

@gater The usual strategy of theists: make a wild claim that is so absurd that even thinking of it is a waste of time, a claim that has no usefulness whatsoever, explains nothing, predicts nothing and then when getting challenged, demand an ontological proof of non-existence. Are you able to grasp how monstrously absurd that is?
Now please give me evidence that there is no pink unicorn in the center of Uranus or could you at least provide a link? Because I grew up to believe there is one but small minded people just cannot conceive of anything like that.

@josmi6699 To say the Universe is infinite is not a wild claim - Einstein said the same thing. The universe has always been here and it extends forever. Simple, basic and true. No need for wild theories from "scientists" that have read too much science fiction.
You are right about one thing - small minded people cannot conceive of anything like that.

Yeah, I believe it - and I have for over 40 years. To me its simple and basic. Although there is no way of knowing what is out there - im am sure space continues forever - the laws of science may never catch up to logic. Logically there is no way to contend that space ends at some point.

@gater Holding a belief for a long time doesn't make it true.

@Coffeo - Obvisously -Just like a timeline, there isn't a biggest or smallest number - time and space are the same.

@gater You keep making statements like this. They are statements of belief, which may or may not be true.

@gater over 40 years you resisted the opportunity to read up on the science and expand your knowledge? Scientists are far from knowing much about the details of the universe, but they have come a whole lot closer than somebody who "believes", I can assure you.

@josmi6699 1st you don't know me - or how much I have studied - to make that statement shows how you state things as true that you really know nothing about.

Sorry, I don't think so - where do you get that idea?

@SACatWalker lol

Hawking. Only one (indeed).

Hawking theorized a finite and multiverse, Einstein said he thought the Universe was infinite but claimed he wasnt sure.

@gater Just watched 2 hours on the life & theories of Stephen Hawking. He was ridiculed for the Big Bang theory which then became accepted. Who the hell knows? Not me.

@Countrywoman Interesting - yes history is full of examples of men that offered new views that were right - but they were ridiculed - Copernicus was nearly put to death because he claimed the earth moved around the Sun.