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I have the problem with imagining expansion, too, because my 3 dimensional experience tells me there has to be a direction, a room into which expansion goes.
One day I thought "Hey! It's time that is expanding, not the matter that makes up the universe. "
And beyond the edge of time, there can not be anything - because it has to happen before it can be something.
This somehow settled my feeling uncomfortable with space expanding.
It doesn't expand into a "there" but rather into a "then", which enables the space to expand, too.
Which still leaves me with thought-vertigo when it comes to the big bang, the beginning of time.
A link is missing, another level is missing to get a feeling of what was "before" time popped into being.
That "before", of course, is my limitation of experience as a human being.
Logically, there can not be a "before" if time did not exist yet.
Hence my thought-vertigo.
Time and space did not exist - so maybe a new word is needed for that circumstance.
Something like "befar", maybe.
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