How can there have been an infinite temperature?

Question

At the time of the big bang I heard there was an infinite temperature. How was this possible? I know atoms vibrate when they have heat energy so was it that they simply moved in a ring (so that they never stopped moving) or something?

Please explain this in layman's terms.

Answer 1

just as a matter of common logic can you imagine any number that is so big that you could'nt add ONE to it.Likewise can you imagine any temperature so high that it could not be made ONE degree hotter.the Idea of infinity is hard to deal with:uncountably large is another matter.

Answer 2

There is no mathematical theory for the "Big Bang" at time=0.  The temperature and other physical parameters become unbounded in any model that covers t>0.

So, don't worry about it.  No one knows what things looked like in the first E-43 or so seconds.

-Fred

Answer 3

There weren't any atoms at that time (aka zero time). It was just pure energy compressed in infinitely small point. It's hard to comprehend, just as it's hard to comprehend that there was no "before" the Big Bang. It was a point of origin.

Answer 4

Explain the Big Bang in layman's terms ! LMAO!!