The Size of the Big Bang Singularity
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, but a state in which space itself began to expand. According to the theory, all matter, energy, space and time were initially compressed into an extremely dense and hot state.
In cosmology, this is not described as a literal point in space, but as a condition in which the entire observable universe was compressed into an extremely small volume.
This state was immensely hot (around °C) and extremely dense. It did not exist at any particular location; rather, the Big Bang occurred everywhere at once.
In the earliest phase (within the first fractions of a second), the size of the universe was only about one‑tenth of a millimetre. More than thirty “early universes” of this kind could have fit on the head of a pin.
This does not refer to a single physical point, but to the fact that all of space was that small at the time.
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