[calex59]

BS, space had to be there before the big bang other wise what was there? Space is nothing but, well, space. Something had to be there in order for the "big bang"(which I also think is BS)to have occurred. As for the matter, that is what the big bang supposedly did and that is what blew up. The matter was, supposedly, condensed into a very small point and then blew up, causing matter to expand outward in all directions through out space. Space had to have been there already.

Your answers are not logical nor do they make sense. Let's just forget it.

[muir_redwoods]

You need to read more. I recommend The Elegant Universe. Think of space as a bubble expanding. The was nothing, no thing, no place, no location, no area, nothing before the big bang. It didn't expand into a space, space itself expanded. the edge of this is the reality boundary. There is nothing of our universe beyond it. It is highly possible that, if other universes exist, they occupy the same space. It's not obvious, it's not intuitive and its not easy but it can be grasped.