What existed before the universe?

Question

If the universe is over hundreds of billions of years old, then what existed before the universe?

Answer 1

Sorry, but most of the answers to this have to do with religion.  My real answer would be God and for me, it isn't such a religious answer, it's a factual answer. Then again, that's if you ask me.

>>>No one knows- there is no definitive answer to that question. But one theory which hasn't been mentioned is that the universe arose from the vacuum which existed before the big bang along with many others. But we can't say for sure.

Answer 2

The universe appears 'only' 14 billion years old.

We do not know that happens before.  We can't even know what happened at time=zero.  We can only go back to what is called the Planck Time (look it up) which is very very close to zero, but is NOT zero.

In equations prepared by Einstein to model the universe for his theories (Relativity), it appears that time itself cannot exist in a universe without mass.

So maybe, the word "before" cannot be used in that context.  Maybe there is no "before" before the universe.

Answer 3

its only existed for 13, or 14 billions years old, and nobody knows what existed before it. If the big bang theory is correct nothing existed before the universe.

Answer 4

The Creator (of the universe).

Answer 5

GOD - and no, it isn't a religious answer, it is a factual one.

Answer 6

Time is a property of the universe, so there was no "before".

As Stephen Hawking said, asking what was before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the north pole.

Answer 7

A singularity the mass of the universe probably existed but who knows for how long.

Answer 8

other membranes. Membranes are three dymentanal  strings. witch are also know as parallel universe.

Answer 9

Nothing, or the previous universe.  We don't really know.

There's even a theory that time started when the universe did... which would mean the universe always existed, in a weird kind of way.

Answer 10

God

Answer 11

nothing. nothing could exist, because there was no universe for it to exist in. and there coudn't have been anything before the universe's creation, because there was no time for which it could be created in.

Answer 12

The universe is not believed to be that old.  Somewhere between 13.2 and 13.7 billion years.

Despite the fact that we put a finite age on the universe, there was no "before."  The reckoning of time and space at and near the beginning would probably be alien to what we are used to.  The very origin of the universe is something that I believe cannot be known or even perceived.  It is counter-intuitive and against every notion of common sense and physical law we know.  And yet, there is one thing we know for sure: we're here and it began somehow.

Answer 13

Nothing provable.

Answer 14

no one knows maybe other universe, their was black matter!