What started the Big Bang?

Question

I understand the creation of the world from the Big Bang on up, but what caused the Big Bang to happen in the first place?

Best answer goes to the one with a rational explanation without denying the Big Bang, unless they have scientific evidence, or without resorting to mythological forces to explain what they don't understand.

Answer 1

We cannot yet predict the details of the universe in its most compact state. Quantum mechanics has yet to produce a theory predicting gravitation as we observe it. General relativity as it stands cannot predict the probablistic nature of microscale phenomena.

Scientists have offered up other models, again none of these describes things perfectly at all scales. You might do a google search for M-Theory - which attempts to connect various complementary models.

In all seriousness and with no sarcasm intended, "What started the big bang?" may be a leading question in a sense...a little like asking "Why does the sun rise in the west?" It doesn't of course.

We observe our environment in countless states. The correlation - the progression - of these states, we call 'time'. We perceive time as a dimension inseparable from space. Cause implies 'time' as described here...something that is really has no meaning apart from space, energy, etc., the boundary of which we call the big bang.

That's not an attempt to dodge the question. From our everyday experiences we come to expect causation. What we observe at very small scales requires no such mechanism, however.

I'd recommend getting Hawking's book The Universe in a Nutshell.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The "big bang" theory has been disproved long ago. It still floats around as a theory but has been disproved scientifically. Even a non-scientist could understand why. Have you ever seen an explosion result in perfect order? Of course not. This universe would be a catastrophic mess if an explosion as large as the "big bang" were to occur. There is lots of scientific evidence to support it, do some homework and you will see what I'm talking about.

Answer 3

According to theory, all the matter that is now in our universe collapsed in upon itself due to the influence of gravity. That much mass has such a powerful gravitational pull that it compressed itself into a point. When the mass reached a critical amount, gravity could no longer keep it compressed into that point and it escaped with such force and velocity that we are still moving from the original "bang". That's about as simple as it can get without sounding 'childish'. You do have to understand, however, that no one was there to witness this phenomenon, so we have to postulate from whatever evidence is available.

Answer 4

I personally believe an enormous planet went super nova and exploded. That planet is what we call our sun today. The debris from the explosion spread outward through space and the collisions of the debris created the planets we know today. I have, however, no proof of this statement, it is only speculation on my part. The sun is the center of our galaxy, and all of the other planets revolve around it, therefore I believe the sun was the souce of the Big Bang.

Answer 5

Possibly big bangs come from black holes. Maybe black holes just don't suck things to an infinitely dense point, maybe they suck to a capacity then burst.

Answer 6

mmm actually, there was no big bang...God created the world and that is why no one knows what started the big bang...^_^

Answer 7

Brane collision.

Answer 8

I did, and I'm not cleaning up the mess that was left.