Big bang question?

Question

So what was there before the bang? Where did the material that 'banged' come from? Can science even tell us this? It seems neither science or religion can tell us "okay, what came before that?"

Answer 1

more great lies

Answer 2

What I imagine to have happened is a little singularity, unimaginably small kept shrinking and shrinking and when it was close to just disappearing, it became too dense and shattered into near oblivion. It released enough energy in the form of dust and gas. Gravity did the rest.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

We don't know.  That doesn't mean the Big Bang is wrong though.

Answer 4

God is the right answer.  even if there were an answer to the events before the big bang.... what caused them?  and so on.  so, God is the right answer.

Answer 5

A big black hole with nothing in the universe.

It was EMPTY.

Answer 6

God

Answer 7

No, neither science or religion can explain what was before the big bang. they both point to the big bang though. (God said let there be light and there was light... I'm guessing the big bang included light) . what came before God... well some person told me that God is beyond time (a concept that is beyond our capability to understand) so I'm going to use that as my answer

To Spazzy Mcgee,  One thing always bothers me when people say the whole world was not flooded therefore  the story of Noah is a lie and never happened.  I am annoyed because the bible itself... or at least parts of it should be considered as a historic document! If god was never mentioned, but there was this story about a worldwide flood people would look into it a bit more closely. I am willing to guess that the whole world was not known at that time. Plus people exaggerate. The fact is multiple cultures have recorded a really REALLY big flood. Did everyone die except Noah...I'm going to say obviously not... People should not be grumbling about stupid little details. Someone wrote about a flood that killed people. What I am guessing is that maybe pretty much a whole civilization was wiped out. It has happened so many times in ancient history, many from natural disasters. In fact today I was watching a show talking about this civilization that disappeared and they think a meteorite caused it. They did a test to see if a meteorite hitting ice would leave a crater in the soil... because the civilization just ended while ice covered North America and well they had trouble finding a crater so this new theory was devised. Any who this could be a story about a civilizations end. Sure someone could make it up but like i said there are many cultures that mention a flood.  ... Now, about the whole evolution thing. I am pretty sure the creation story is a load of BS.  I just find it interesting that some of the things mentioned, that supposedly happened in 7 days goes in pretty much the order that the theory of evolution goes in. Just found that interesting. I do not know who wrote down the creation story... but they might have been trying to fill in gaps... maybe not. The creation story drastically goes from chaos to light and then it kind of turns into the creation story of the earth.  i am agreeing that a lot of things have been said because we did not understand them but i really do believe that it all had to start somewhere. All cells come from preexisting cells is what we know right now. But at one time there had to be nothing. How can something come from nothing... well there had to be something within that nothing right? If not physical matter then something. Meh... i guess humanity will eventually find out.  Science is so interesting. Oh one last thing, Yes there is no evidence to support that God created the Big Bang.... but there is also no evidence to prove that he didn't. So for now both theories stand equally.

Answer 8

It's possible that a highly advanced civilization made our universe in a laboratory. It is also possible that matter and antimatter collided, and for some reason their was more matter (probably CP violation).  However, it probably won't happen again because dark energy is pushing the universe out and eventually there will be a big freeze, where the only thing left is black holes, neutron stars and dead stars and the temperature is near absolute freezing.

Answer 9

Its just a huge cycle. Before the big bang, there was the big crunch. And before that, the universe got really big, then really small, and before that, the Big Bang.

So the cycle is like...

Big BANG --> Universe slowly grew --> Universe slowly shrunk --> Big CRUNCH --> Big BANG

What happens in between the big crush and big bang, is nothing. Just that eventually something causes a reaction that makes a big bang.

Answer 10

some say an infinitely dense point  , others say nothing. So we could all be a bunch of nothing .

Answer 11

If you want a religious explanation, God made it.

If you want a scientific answer, there are many other theories I will give a few.

One is that the matter is the result of quantum disruptions of a pure vacuum of space that is self-organizing and self-assembling.

Another is it is one of many universes in an infinite superspace.

Or a nice explanation is it is non-nonsensical to ask, time arose with the big bang, you can't ask what was there before, because there is no before to ask about.

You take your pick really.

Answer 12

Before the Big Bang there was nothing. Not even time. But only from a linear point of view.

The universe is a self contained thing, oscillating between Big Bang and Big Crunch. Matter is neither created nor destroyed, merely transformed into energy or out of energy.

Matter is also transformed into antimatter and vice versa. As far as the laws of physics go, time can run in either direction and the equations will hold up. Simply put, antimatter is actually matter, but traveling backwards through time.  

When matter rushes towards the Big Crunch at the "end" of the universe, it is not rushing towards its destruction, only its transformation into antimatter, which then travels backwards through time to the "beginning" of the universe where it is transformed, again, into matter, and travels forwards through time once more.

The Big Crunch and Big Bang are the moments of transformation. The universe can be thought of as rebounding from some force outside itself.

No matter what theory you have for the Big Bang, the thing from which the universe sprang must be suited to the creation  of universes, by its very nature, or by the will of a god.

God, though, has already told you what to think. The answers are already written in scriptures and holy books. You don't even need to ask the question if you already know that God did it.

Science is the asking of questions and the looking for answers.

I've given you my theory of life the universe and everything, and I don't believe God had anything to do with it.

Answer 13

its was matter, and the elements that were cooking, just like a pot of boiling water, upon reaching the heating point, it boiled n finally exploded

Answer 14

I think god made the universe with the "big bang" (or what ever triggered the universe to form) and made it possible for evolution and physics and chemistry to exist.

Answer 15

religion lacks the ability to give us any meaningful information, obviously.

and although science hasn't given us the answer yet, it certainly may in the possibly near future.

Answer 16

Okay, since God created space and time, God doesn't have to oblige to physics or anything, so he transcends space and time. So he never had a beginning, therefore he will never have an end, he created time so we could have a "ruler" to live by. Get it?

A way to think about it is you drawing something. You can make up a purple sun for your drawings, or make yourself have an orange house, but that doesn't mean your sun has to be purple or your house has to be orange. It's YOUR creation, so you can do anything you want to it, but you don't have to live by it.

hope i helped [:

sorry, that was a whole big response to the whole "what was before God" question.

for the big bang question thing, i think when God created the universe, there was a pretty big bang. and for every1 who believes in evolution, that does not in any way explain the origin of the universe.

Answer 17

Unknown. Yes, it is maddening to want to know things which have no answer but we must keep in mind that it has only been 300 years ago that the Roman Catholic Church has allowed heliocentrism (the Sun in the center of our Solar System) to be allowed to be spoken of as a POSSIBLE THEORY. The Church still has not officially declared this as fact.

So we have had 300 years to come up with all of the answers to your questions. Despite modern technological advancements, that is not enough time.

It's fun to not know how things work in Nature and say "God did it." By doing so, we no longer need to concern ourselves with investigating or researching or experimenting or observing. Life can remain a mystery created by the ominous God and we don't need to meddle in his works.

Or we can search for the answers behind Nature.

Today's physics is unable to calculate the origin of the singularity. We do know that there was energy and mass and gravity. This is enough to spark the expansion (not explosion).

If there was a singularity, then why criticize scientists who seek to research the answers.

If there was a god who snapped his fingers, then there still is no basis to criticize scientists who want to understand creation.

The Big Bang is not a theory that scientists try to force down peoples throats. The theory is based upon observations and calculations. The theory is a project in progress. When something doesn't appear to fit in with the model, scientists focus their efforts to understand why and the model is adjusted.

If we instead use the concept that 'god did it' then there are many more questions than answers. Why did god make life possible only on the third generation of stars 8 billion years after he made the first star? Why did god make the initial heat so hot that it took 300,000 years for elements to split from the radiation? Why create solar systems from nebulae that spin with such chaotic devastation that we continue to fear asteroid impacts to this day? Why collide a planetoid with Earth to form the Moon instead of snapping his fingers? Why create elliptical orbits instead of smooth circular ones? Why create the planet Earth and then wait another 4 billion years to create Man? Why not snap his fingers instead of watching the dinosaurs roam for 650,000,000 years and then crashing an asteroid into our planet? On and on and on....

I have no problem with those who find salvation with religion. I hope you are right. But it seems that the people who blindly say 'god did it' never want to discuss the Protozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic and Cretaceous eras in the history of Earth. This is an injustice towards scientific truth. If you wish to discuss god, then one must put all of the cards on the table.

If you are questioning what made the singularity to what caused all of the other chain of events that led up to the existence of yourself here on planet Earth, I seriously would have to disagree and state that (at least until we find out more about how the singularity may have been created) the scales are tipped in favor of Nature and not a god.

One cannot simply ask what created the singularity without also including all of the above equally relevant questions as well.

Answer 18

Not to be offensive or anything, but God is just a bandaid put on whatever mankind doesn't understand... and some stuff it does understand yet which some don't like believing.

It is very convenient to say "God made it" for everything, but that has been the explanation for many things despite it later turning out to have happened another ways.

Examples: "God created all life several thousand years ago" It actually evolved over billions of years. "God flooded the entire Earth and Noah, his family, and all of the animals on his boat re-populatd the entire Earth" Genetic examinations show there is no such bottleneck in genetic diversity and no evidence of global flood.

Once science gained prominence and began dispelling these beliefs with logic and evidence most began bending the gospel around science. "God may not have created everything a few thousand years ago, but he did create the Big Bang" but there is no proof of this. If one raised children with no prior knowledge of human history and raised them into adulthood with only testable and repeatable facts they would not even conceive of God.

And like I said before, God is a bandaid applied to the gaps in human knowledge like it always has. All we know is that the universe was probably concentrated into nearly infinite density around 13 billion years ago. At that point it was very uniform in density unlike the clumps of galaxies today and its very difficult to see much further than that. It would be like you trying to figure out what kind of origami shape I folded a piece of paper into after I ripped it apart, burnt it to ashes, and throughn it on the ground.

Answer 19

Imagination.

Answer 20

I think the Big Bang theory is a mixture.

What i think is that God made the Earth.

But Gods not just going to be like okay its there.

It took him a whole day to make each thing for a reason.

So i think when he did it it was a bang!

I mean he isnt just going ot snap his fingers and it be there.

God is more.........................Complicated...

Or more like, not just regular.

Answer 21

im not sure what comes before what im about to type, but string theorists came up with this: out side our universe floats more universes all with different laws of physics. they believe that when two universes collide with each other, different molcules from the universes transfer and creates a big burst or molecules and atoms. nuclear fusion and fission creates the different elements on the periodic table and when the conditions for the fission and fusion runs dry, not more different elements can be made until the condition is provided again. thats how they think universes are made and thats how you get your physics and atoms.

Answer 22

It is hypothesized that our big bang originated from a subatomic particle that contains large amounts of energy. It is also hypothesized that there are an infinite amount of universes that all started out from subatomic particles such as the one that may have led to the creation of our universe.

Answer 23

Nobody knows...Religion doesn't know, nor' does science...I'm really into evolution myself but I'm done asking the "What was the beginning" question ha...Nobody knows and no one ever will :( There are alot of people that guess but I can assure to they do not KNOW.

Probably doesn't help you much but it's the truth :).

GL

Answer 24

Because "Lord Brahma opens his eyes and worlds come into being; he closes is eyes and worlds go out of being."

Ancient Hindu scripture.  Think about it.

Answer 25

To understand the big things you must sometimes look at the little things. So, look at life on earth. We are born and we die, just as the sun was born and will one day die. So the universe was born and one day it too will die. We live within a cycle which occurs with a larger cycle which is contained within yet an even larger cycle. The universe is contained within something larger and so on and so on.

Answer 26

big bang is against the laws of physics, an object can only be in motion if set in motion..... how did the rocks or whatever it is from the big bang get set in motion?

Answer 27

No one really knows how it all started, and  we will never really know. It is crazy to try and wrap your mind around it. But the Lord has made everything, even if there were a big bang, someone had to of started it, God has created everything.