What was before the Big Bang

Question

I would like to know what was before the Big Bang. I mean its so hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the Big Bang is the start of everything. I mean something must have triggered it and something must have triggered the thing that triggered the Big Bang. There must have been something before the Big Bang.

Answer 1

a fuse?

Or maybe the collapse of the universe before ours which had after expanding for so long finally collapsed back in on itself causing BOOMO

Answer 2

Well, i am currently enrolled in an Astronomy course right now, so the information is pretty-up-to-date as fare as I know.  Since the Big Bang was supposedly the 'beginning' of spacetime, there really wasn't an 'anything' or a 'before' according to our current theories.  Sounds rather contradictory, huh?  But no one really knows, and if we do find out about this, I don't think that we'll discover it for quite some time.

So in the meantime, we can use our imaginations to picture what happened 'before' the Big Bang and what caused it.

Answer 3

i personally dont think the big bang really happened i feel that scientists had no idea how things worked so they made a highly beleivable hypothesis that cant actually be backed up very well at all  

Answer 4

Good luck with your search. If you can place something before the big bang then something can be placed before that and you come around full circle. The BB was supposedly the beginning of space/time so by definition nothhing came before it.  

Answer 5

A big giant Johnny Appleseed.

Good as any answer;)

Answer 6

     I believe that God was there before the Big Bang.  I believe that the ultimate structure of all existence is outside our physical universe, and that this fundamental structure is an omnipresent, omnipotent, sapient being that created our physical universe through the Big Bang.  Our "universe" is just a small part of a greater whole.  The fundamental structure is eternal, and never had a beginning, because it encompasses all that exists. The fundamental structure is God.

Answer 7

It was nothing, infinite density and infinitely no mass(singularity)

Answer 8

I am no authority on the subject, but I thought that the big bang was part of a cycle.  Big Bang occurs and the universe expands.  The universe eventually loses its acceleration and begins to contract until it converges together into another big bang.  It happens over and over again.  That's what I heard.

Edit:  It's like the chicken and the egg, what came first the big bang, or the universe?  Can't have a big bang without a universe and can't have a universe without a big bang.

Answer 9

There is nothing befgore the big bang as you call it. But thier has always been GOD!!!

Answer 10

nothing

Answer 11

Matter and antimatter. Some believe it was the end of another universe due to a paradox. Good question.

Answer 12

No one knows what came "before TIME began"..... with the big bang.

Answer 13

Some say God, others say a red dot the size of a period ".".

Answer 14

The Big Bang theory states that the universe was a super dense nearly perfectly uniform cloud of particles around 13.7 billion years ago. This has been deduced from observations like things tending to become very disorganized and the space between galaxies increasing. It can be assumed that since the galaxies are getting farther apart they were once closer... hence the universe probably being very dense. Since things tend to become chaotic rather than organized (entropy) it can be assumed that the universe was very uniform at one time. Its hard to see past this point.

Imagine the universe as a piece of origami paper. If I unfold it and refold it from a crane into a turtle a very smart observant person could probably figure out it was once a crane by the fold marks left behind... this is much like humans figuring out what the universe was like before we were around using evidence (the creases). Now if I ripped the turtle apart, burnt it to ashes, recycled it into another sheet of paper, and then refolded no one would be able to tell what it looked like before... this is like the big bang. We can't see past it because the event of the Big Bang was too extreme in comparison to events afterwords to make any reasonable assumptions about pre-Big Bang happenings.

Answer 15

I always imagined that all matter exploded only so far and then all came back together and re-Big Banged every ~ 10^457239 years. Since there probably is no beginning of time the number of Big Bangs have probably happened more times that one can imagine.

Answer 16

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