Please don't "God" me.
2006-06-21 05:04:24 · 16 answers · asked by kano7_1985 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There are several speculations on this. Ultimately they are *all* speculations because at this point we have no evidence to prefer one hypothesis over another.
The first is that it simply makes no sense to talk about 'before the Big Bang'. This is because time itself is part of the structure of the universe and the universe began at the Big Bang. It is sort of like asking what is north of the north pole. The coordinate just doesn't go there. Scientists call this a 'singularity'. The good thing about this view is that general relativity (on which it is based) is well verified. The bad thing is that it doesn't take into account quantum effects.
Another view is that there was a 'Big Bounce'. In other words, there was a previous universe that was contracting and that Bounced to give ours. This has recently obtained more credibility from calculations done in quantum loop gravity (which is a proposed unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics). The problem is that quantum loop gravity has no independent evidence in its favor.
Still another view uses quantum mechanics and suggests that a vacuum is a high energy state that decayed into the universe we have today. In this, is makes sense to talk about 'before the Big Bang', but there was literally nothing there. This view is supported by a host of results establishing quantum mechanics and an inflationary universe, but has the difficulty that the 'potential energy' for the vacuum is mostly speculation. We do know that quantum fluctuations can produce particles out of 'nothing'. This effect has been measured in the lab. The size of the needed effect is at issue, however.
2006-06-21 05:47:39 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 10⤊ 1⤋
It was PARTY TIME!!!
I mean there was a void and nothingness except for a tiny tiny concentration of matter squashed together so tiny that you couldn't have seen it.
That's supported by the Red Shift Theory, erm but i do still believe God had something to do with it, sorry.
AndI believe in evolution too, but I think God had a hand in that too, sorry. I don't think you can have one without the other, faith and science go together and complement each other, Darwin and Einstein were both faithful Christians. Or was Einstein Jewish? Whatever.
The missing link yadeeyadeeyaa, catalyst for the big bang. Doesn't matter.
2006-06-21 05:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by Moggy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parallel universes coming into contact in the 11th dimension causing the big bang and the creation of this universe. I think it's called the "M" theory. If it's true, we will eventually be able to create universes in the laboratory.
Care to be God?
2006-06-21 05:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by lunatic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the universe stated with a singularity as stated by Hawkin,then it would expand until it ran out of energy then the gravitational force would pull it back untill all the matter formed a black hole and a new singularity and started all over again.That is a somewhat simplified version but I could not begin to go into quantum physics here.
2006-06-21 05:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by TAFF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One major beleif was that god created the heaven and the earth in seven days. and on the seventh day he rested.
thats why when the theory of evolution and The big bang was concidered blasphamy if spoken aloud.
But if you don't want god. I'm sure the devil was another coulpret.
Aliens might of been another one.
or maybe were having mass halucinations and this is onlly a dream.
2006-06-21 05:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by John N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps our Universe is very small in relation to an even larger Universe or Multiverses. Think of our size in relation to atoms, or even insects. That is why I have problems with people who claim that an absolute being created it all, because, if the absolute being thing has a grain of truth in it, he/she/it could be an alien lifeform so big, who appeared to early humans as a god.
2006-06-22 05:28:53 · answer #6 · answered by hasina_ghani 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there were plenty of scientific theories before edwin hubble proved the universe was expanding.
These theories included the "constant steady state universe"
(which states that the universe has always existed and will remain constant in nature). (supported by various people including Albert Einstien).
and the "infinite in size universe." (supported by Newton)
(Which states that the universe is infinitely large)
2006-06-21 05:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by khaoticwarchild 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that everything in the universe was just dust and when the chemicals started to form and come together there was the big bang. I think that's what there was.
2006-06-21 05:08:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like you say a theory is a supposition, so your question is very hypothetical.
Just like the THEORY of evolution which take more faith to believe in than creation.
2006-06-21 05:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by Marxsparx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i learned that before everything was balanced...for some unknown reason, gravity pulled everything towards the center and collapsed...
some scientist argue now that the universe keeps expanding outward
some believe that there are boundries and some day the universe will collapse again and form a new one...
2006-06-21 08:11:48 · answer #10 · answered by superwoman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋