A question for people who believe in the big bang theory?

Question

you say that all life started with an energy that expanded or exploded. But where did the energy come from?

Answer 1

good question.

now answer this. you say that the big bang couldnt be true. then explain

the CMB

redshifted galaxies

ratio of heavy to light elements and hydrogen to helium

abundance of deuterium

uniformity of the universe

large scale structure of the universe.

the origin of the energy is a problem for any model of the start of the universe, not just the big bang. it argues AGAINST god just as much as it does against the big bang theory. either the law of conservation of energy was violated (whether it be by god or not) or there is something older than the universe, and the energy always existed.

and btw, the big bang theory has nothing to do with the origin of life, evolution, the evolution of a star, none of that. so please, dont try to equate the big bang with anything else because youd be wrong.

Answer 2

Well, I have come up with a, sort of, own theory that ties in. I believe in multiple dimensions (like speeds). And we can only see our dimension because it is in the speed we see. However, there are faster and slower speeds that we can't see. I think this energy or matter, whatever, came from one of those dimensions. My dimension and speed theory also works with the idea of black holes and white holes.

Answer 3

The Big Bang wasn't the beginning of the universe, only the beginning of the current stage of our little bit of it.

The energy was already there, just compressed into a small dot.

A better question might be: Why do people feel the overwhelming need to look for beginnings and endings?

Answer 4

It's not a matter of belief.  Science has evidence to support it - otherwise it wouldn't be called science.  It's a matter of accepting the evidence or not accepting it.  And I accept it, as do most other scientists.

The big bang theory explains how and why the universe expanded.  It does not say where the universe came from in the first place, and where it came from has no bearing on big bang theory.  So you're asking something unrelated to be big bang theory.  And the answer is, we don't know yet.  We have some theories, but we still need to test them.  Check back in 10 years or so; we might have a better answer.

Answer 5

Since time began at the moment of the big bang, the energy did not come from anywhere and it did not appear out of nothing, it simply is.

Answer 6

As usual for people such as you, you have completely misunderstood big bang cosmology. The big bang was certainly NOT the start of any life, never mind all life. For quite some time after the bang, the only matter in the universe was hydrogen, some helium, and a tiny bit of lithium. How do you propose that life could be made from only three elements, one of them chemically inert? Life could only have begun several billions of years afterward, after the first stars had had some time to cook up heavier elements, and after those elements had had time to re-form into planets around later stars, and after life had had time to develop from them.

As for where the energy came from, that's unknown at this time, but that does not grant you license to say "goddidit". It's just unknown, but scientists are working very hard to uncover the mystery. One possibility is that it came from the collision of two 'branes', but that's m-theory, and way, way over your head. Mine too, by the way; there's no arrogance in that statement, just fact.

Answer 7

That is a good question, and I'm not sure I am even qualified to answer it.  I am a "believer" of that particular theory, however, I feel that no one really knows, yet, "where" the energy came from----1st let me qualify that---I feel that "it", whatever "it" was, wasn't "big", cause they, astrobiologists, astrophysicists, astronomers, and other scientists feel that whatever began, began as a "singularity", which was tiny, hot, and expanding.  And there was no "bang", cause there is no atmosphere in space, therefore, there was no "noise"!  But as far as where "it" all came from, well, if the "theory" holds true, there was a sigularity that held all the "forces", ie gravity, magnetic forces, etc., etc.  Then "it" just blew up, over, in, "wherever" (which has been proven) by the "W-map" egg.    

So, the "big bang" was a derisive term used by Fred Hoyle on one of his infamous radio shows cause he didn't believe in that form of creation of the universe, and all it's matter, at all.