What was here before the big bang?

Question

Can you think time as 0 aka time having a sart but no a finish

That is waht is wrong with the BB theory it assums that time is equal to 0. And matter and energy was created. But according to conversation of energy and matter they cann't be created form nothing. That is messed up

Answer 1

The Big Bang is believed to have spawned from a singularity.  They are not saying nothing was there.  Just that everything we see today was contained in one teeny, tiny spot.  Sounds amazing but that is what black holes do too...just on a smaller scale.

What caused the singularity to explode is another question altogether and no one really knows.  There are some theories but no way of currently testing them today.

Answer 2

Nothing.  The big bang was the beginning of time as well as space.  And stuff is created from nothing all the time; study "virtual particles" to see this.

Answer 3

Only god knows.

Answer 4

that is called o or zero before big bang

Answer 5

Lotsa theories.  No observation or experiment can shed light on the problem.  Thus we have philosophy, not science.

The dude below should do a little more reading.  The above statement is agreed with by a lot of scientists, although very few cosmologists.

Answer 6

An incalculably large black hole.

Answer 7

I was watching discovery channel and they were saying that ours is not the first universe.

There have been countless others which collapsed into its own (gravity?) and that is the material and energy for a new big bang and a new universe.

Answer 8

as of know quantum mechanics cannot define what was there before it because at that moment it was just a "singularity" this means that all the known laws of physics break down including time. so we may never really know what was there, except that in theory the big bang theory proves that only a single atom was there and it exploded and created all that you see now before you.

so far it is believed that gravity broke off from the 4 main forces of the universe, weak and strong radioactive forces and electromagnetism along with gravity. they assumed that gravity at one point broke off and the remaining forces  all broke apart and ruptured. thus, creating what is now the universe.

Answer 9

There was no "here", and there was no "before". Both time and space began with the big bang. Your understanding of conservation of matter/energy is what's messed up, not the theory.

Answer 10

i know this isn't an answer...but what was there before the 1st big bang? if there were multiple ones that keep happening what was there to start the 1st one?? and since nobody knows people automatically assume god... but nobody can prove god is real either.. so confusing..

Answer 11

Before the Big Bang was the branas. The collision of two branas created the BB.

Answer 12

Goo.Stiky stuf.Pre gravity.

Answer 13

Actually that's not the current thinking.  You need to do some serious reading.

Answer 14

I believe in that theory where the big bang happens over and over again,. Once it happens all the matter and planets spread out, then after billions and billions of years it starts to come back together and it explodes again.

Answer 15

GOD!

true

thats my big bang! :]

Answer 16

wow, you're right, all the scientists in the world missed that one!!!  Well, back to the drawing board.

There are currently 4 fundamental forces of physics. Before a certain point of the big bang, these forces were combined into one (grand unified force).  We don't understand physics with these forces combines into one, so we have no way to model what was "before" the BB or what may have triggered it.

Answer 17

singularaty

Answer 18

The Big Bang Theory is just that....a theory (speculation). Being a Christian, I will say the only "thing" that existed before this universe was created, was God. Here is a great link on Creation vs. evolution, which goes along with your question.

http://www.gotquestions.org/creation-evo...

I'd like to add, this web site is awesome, and has a lot of helpful Q and A's about Christianity, the Bible, Jesus, sin, etc. You can contact them too, and someone will be nice enough to reply to you within a reasonable amount of time. I've written to them asking different stuff quite a few times.

Answer 19

It is all a matter of entropy. At the time of the big bang, entropy was minimum. At the time of heat death, entropy will be maximum. What is now believed is that the instant maximum heat death occurs, the universe is so sparse - that at any point there is minimum entropy - at that point. Then that point occurs a quantum time jump from maximum time to minimum time - thus repeating the big bang.

Think of the time of the big bang as a infinitely small point. Then at the time of heat death, infinitely big.

And since infinite equal infinite = the times are interchangable - actually reversable.

Imagine that we start with empty space at some particular moment and watch it evolve into the future and into the past. (It goes both ways because we are not presuming a unidirectional arrow of time.) Baby universes fluctuate into existence in both directions of time, eventually emptying out and giving birth to babies of their own. On ultralarge scales, such a multiverse would look statistically symmetric with respect to time—both the past and the future would feature new universes fluctuating into life and proliferating without bound. Each of them would experience an arrow of time, but half would have an arrow that was reversed with respect to that in the others.

The idea of a universe with a backward arrow of time might seem alarming. If we met someone from such a universe, would they remember the future? Happily, there is no danger of such a rendezvous. In this scenario, the only places where time seems to run backward are enormously far back in our past—long before our big bang. In between is a broad expanse of universe in which time does not seem to run at all; almost no matter exists, and entropy does not evolve. Any beings who lived in one of these time-reversed regions would not be born old and die young—or anything else out of the ordinary. To them, time would flow in a completely conventional fashion. It is only when comparing their universe to ours that anything seems out of the ordinary—our past is their future, and vice versa. But such a comparison is purely hypothetical, as we cannot get there and they cannot come here.

Cosmologists have contemplated the idea of baby universes for many years, but we do not understand the birthing process. If quantum fluctuations could create new universes, they could also create many other things—for example, an entire galaxy. For this scenario to explain the universe we see, it has to predict that most galaxies arise in the aftermath of big bang–like events and not as lonely fluctuations in an otherwise empty universe. If not, our universe would seem highly unnatural. is the idea that a striking feature of our observable cosmos—the arrow of time, arising from very low entropy conditions in the early universe—can provide us with clues about the nature of the unobservable universe.

If the observable universe were all that existed, it would be nearly impossible to account for the arrow of time in a natural way. But if the universe around us is a tiny piece of a much larger picture, new possibilities present themselves. We can conceive of our bit of universe as just one piece of the puzzle, part of the tendency of the larger system to increase its entropy without limit in the very far past and the very far future. To paraphrase physicist Edward Tryon, the big bang is easier to understand if it is not the beginning of everything but just one of those things that happens from time to time.

Answer 20

The other big bang

Answer 21

A bunch of Little Bangs?  (smiling)  How are you today?  Good I hope!  I don't know but it's certainly food for thought.  I do know that I would like to go back in time and view the whole thing so I could come back and tell you and everyone else!  As far as time having a start and no finish well I think that time is a thing that is complete and without a beginning or end.  It just exists.  Think of it like this.  A number is infinite and without ending because you can always add 1 more.  1 + 1.  100 + 1.  1000 + 1 and so on.  Time to me is the same.  Wherever you are in time there was the 1 second before the time you are presently in.  It sounds wierd but I believe that time is a complete circle without a beginning or end.  Yeah it sounds kooky but it makes just as much sense to me as anything else!