They say the start of time was when the big bang happened...what 6 billion yrs ago? what is time b4 then???

Question

here's my beef.........i can basically understand that something exploded billions and billons and billions years ago and created the universe we have today. but i what to know what was there in space b4. trillions b4 the big bang..........space was there right?? something had to be there.............so if we look at TIME it always WAS. it means that b4 everything was creatted........thing's have been b4 and b4 and b4 and b4........................that means that actually there is no time..............cause if you keep going back in time......there is no beginning..........and that means what?? does that mean maybe trillion of trillions of years ago.......i may have asked this same question??? and that you may have answered it ? and then the same circumstances happened quad drillions of years again and the exact same thing happened, but off just by a fraction?? is time like this.......d**n, my head hurts to thing about such deep thoings. time.......what?

Answer 1

there are many different theories discussing what was before the big bang, that occured about 13.7 billion years ago. some say there was nothing before the big bang, and that nothing existed. others say that another universe existed before ours did. there are many theories, but the true answer will probably never be known.

Answer 2

Boy!...you certainly said a mouthful.

The current theory is that the universe started just under 14 billion years ago....and before that...nothing.

It's a funny thing.....the human mind.....we can always come up with more questions than there will be answers to those questions.

No one will ever really know what happened b4 b4 b4 b4 the big bang.

That is an answer that is most likely beyond human comprehension....but...all we can do...is just wonder.

Answer 3

you think too much....the answer though is simple.....there is no time as such years,months days seconds are only a means of measuring for us to understand our lives...there always was and always will be..this cannot be measured by us we only can try to make things relevent...take the thought out of what your conception is and you will know

Answer 4

This is a very valid, fundamental and mind-boggling question! I recommend you read the book by Stephen Hawking, very popular a few years ago, " A brief history of time" which tackles, or tries to, this question.

Basically, the answer is as mind-boggling as the question! Asking what was before the big bang is equivalent to asking what lies north of the north pole!!?? There is no "before" the big bang because time as we know it started there... Is as if it were created at the same time with everything else.... Weird, eh!

But read the book if you are interested in these things... Good stuff!

Answer 5

Frank -

I think you are making the assumption that time is constant, because it appears constant to you. It's always been the same in your experience, and it always will be - so it's constant. But time is not constant. Einstein showed that 100 years ago, and it has been demonstrated repeatedly in laboratory environments since then. Furthermore, time and space are inseparably linked together. So if there was no space prior to the Big Bang, then it's reasonable to assume that there was also no time. My head hurts too, but the important thing to understand is that 13.5 billion years ago or so, at the the Big Bang event, nothing was as we see it today - nothing. In fact, it was so foreign to our everyday experience that I think it's sort of impossible to describe it in our language, which does not really have words for THAT.

Answer 6

I think the best way to put it is like this - before you were born where or what were you?? the answer is ...nothing. Before a baby is conceived they are just that - they don't exist at all.

There is an interesting theory out there at the moment in the scientific community which is called M THEORY. As far as my mind can break it down - the theory suggests that there are many universes out there (or membranes). Think of our universe as a car on the freeway along with all the other cars or universes driving along the freeway.

This theory also gives rise to the question of parallel universes, however forgetting about that in this instance, the theory explains that it could be possible that these membranes (or universes) are colliding into each other on a regular basis. Which each collision a new universe is "born" or created. Thus this is where our BIG BANG comes into the equation.

Very interesting theory.....