Whatever happened before that first fraction of a second lies beyond the limits of the theory. The ultimate origin of the universe is still unfathomed. This is the beginning of all the hidden things, which spread out from there and emanate, according to their species. He said that, as emanation proceeds, as God begins to unfold, the point expands into a circle. Similarly, ever since the big bang, our universe has been expanding in all directions.
Physicists search for the symmetry hidden within the tangle of everyday reality.
They want to find equations that link the forces of nature. Spiritual search, too, in its own way, charts a course through multiplicity toward oneness. The mystics reinterpreted it to mean that the universe emanated from divine nothingness. Similarly, cosmologists speak of the quantum vacuum, teeming with potential. This vacuum is anything but empty - a seething froth of virtual particles, constantly appearing and disappearing.