Considering the Big Bang. How big was the original ball of matter from which the big bang occurred?

Question

Was it smaller than an atom, or was it peanut size. Could it have been as large as a base ball or even a watermelon. Could it have been as large as a house or skyscraper how big a thing does it take for a big bang to create a universe?

Answer 1

For starters, there was no matter, the singularity has been described as a point with no dinensions.

Answer 2

  The big bang sprang from a potential that was simply finite.

  After it was one-thirty billionths of a second old it was extremely dense and about 2cm in diameter.

Answer 3

It wasn't a ball, it was nothing.  The ball is just an example.  It was singularity, infinite density and no mass.

Answer 4

The line says something like, "all the stuff that is in our currently Visible Universe was packed inside a volume smaller than a proton."  However, the Universe at that time was at least as large as the currently Visible Universe.  So, today, the Universe is really big.

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Answer 5

I often hear "infinitely small" but I don't know if that's an exaggeration or not.