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The question came to me while I was standing in my back yard taking a leak and staring at the stars.

There are a couple of logic points here. We can monitor celestial movements. The universe is expanding. Therefore, based on trajectories, we should be able to figure out roughly where they came from assuming the theory is correct.

The question came to me while I was standing in my back yard taking a leak and staring at the stars. There are a couple of logic points here. We can monitor celestial movements. The universe is expanding. Therefore, based on trajectories, we should be able to figure out roughly where they came from assuming the theory is correct.

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You're picturing the expanding universe as if it were expanding linearly from a point in 3-dimensional space. That's not how it works. It's expanding in all directions at once, not just one direction. It's a bit like an ant standing on a balloon as it's being inflated and asking where's the point on the balloon's surface that the expansion originated from. There is no origination in the two dimensions represented by the surface of the balloon. Likewise, the origin of the Big Bang requires a fourth coordinate ... time.