What happened before the big bang?

Question

What happened before the big bang?

Answer 1

String theory proposes the Big Bang is the result of a collision between two cosmic membranes. How those came about, who knows.

Check this video from NOVA:

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Answer 2

Space-time formed and developed at and just after the big bang.  So, the question is meaningless because strictly speaking, time came into existence along with everything else.  If time didn't exist, there is no such thing as 'before' the big bang.  Sorry, but that's the sort of thing that happens when you start looking at singularities.  All we can do with physics is dig into the earliest moments of it.  

As for the 'God said' answers.. sure, but now we're talking about How, not Who. . .  c'mon, you think God's as stupid as we are?  Really?  He had to dumb it down a lot for Einstein...

Answer 3

there is no possible way of knowing. Everything you here are just theories that COULD have happened. The only way of knowing is asking God!

Answer 4

In Science class they said the big bang is still a theory, but the earth looked orange like one of jupiter's moons, we were still producing water and the ozone layer..and it was HOT!

Answer 5

lsd

Answer 6

Some crazy people claim God happened before the big bang, I myself, believe there were other worlds, and that our big bang was just a random star death. Anyway, I hope that helped...which it most undoubtedly didn't.

Answer 7

Deafing silence

Answer 8

The idea that the universe erupted with a Big Bang explosion has been a big barrier in scientific attempts to understand the origin of our expanding universe, although the Big Bang long has been considered by physicists to be the best model. As described by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the origin of the Big Bang is a mathematically nonsensical state -- a "singularity" of zero volume that nevertheless contained infinite density and infinitely large energy.

Now, however, Bojowald and other physicists at Penn State are exploring territory unknown even to Einstein -- the time before the Big Bang -- using a mathematical time machine called Loop Quantum Gravity. This theory, which combines Einstein's Theory of General Relativity with equations of quantum physics that did not exist in Einstein's day, is the first mathematical description to systematically establish the existence of the Big Bounce and to deduce properties of the earlier universe from which our own may have sprung. For scientists, the Big Bounce opens a crack in the barrier that was the Big Bang.

Answer 9

Scientists are still working on it. The new CERN particle accelerator which is almost ready to be fired up should give us more clues. Until then it's anyone's guess (as you will discover ).

Answer 10

God was, is, and always will be.

Answer 11

i dont no, what happened before the big bang? id love 2 no!

Answer 12

I fell that no one really knows whether, or not, there was a pre-"Big Bang".  And anyway, it's just a theory, of the aftermath of whatever happened.  And one reason that "they" (people who are much, more brilliant than I am) feel there was "something that happened" is that they (the people who are much more smart that me) can take everything back in time till "it" began.

Now I have a question, within a question:  How could the "Big Bang" have been "big" if, in fact, it began as a singularity, something small and infinate.  And how could there have been a "Bang" if, in fact, there was no air, at the time (or at all, for that matter), for sound to scatter or to have been carried off into space.



Unless, of course, the "Big Bang" is like a "white hole" and "things" come/came out of it upon convergance with anything.  And then "everhthing" come/came our ot it forever, and the universe is still moving, I understand.

And/or it could be like soap bubbles, ongoing, never stopping, popping and reforming after the pop, etc., etc.

Answer 13

The infinite instance of the accretion of prior universes culminated in a mass that exploded into the universe where we now live - and speculate - wildly, oft-times.

Answer 14

There was no big bang

it started out as

God Created

Answer 15

maybe donosaurs

Answer 16

This question has no valid answer.

Answer 17

there was no "big bang". think about it....didnt the earth turn out a little too perfect to support life to be an "accident"? if it was an accident, we wouldve probably turned out like freakin peices of mutated shitballs

Answer 18

no one knows!

any definitive answer includes a paradox, and violates the laws of the universe we've come to understand...

but the not knowing is beautiful