Did "time" exist even before the Big Bang?

Question

Theists please don't answer.

Answer 1

Yes, the explanation is within "M theory". Look it up and read about it. It has to do with 'membranes' of space-time colliding to induce the big bang...

Answer 2

Scientifically, it doesn't really matter whether time (or anything else) existed before the Big Bang.

How science works is by testing a hypothesis with an observation or measurement. In the current, accepted view, nothing that existed before the Big Bang would have survived the Big Bang to become observable in some way today. All observations **so far** are consistent with this view.

If you had a theory where some thing or some kind of information could survive the Big Bang and still have some kind of observable effect today, then that theory could be tested, and confirmed or refuted. Until then, everything we can see or detect is as if time did not exist before the Big Bang.

To make conjectures about something that can't be tested or measured is fine for philosophers and theologists, but it is simply outside the scope of science.

Answer 3

when I took a class on the big bang and black holes we talked about this for about almost a week and came up with a yes. The Idea is that if the 'Big Bang' did happen (and like a previous answerer said its now thought of more as a single singularity) or if something similar happened the universe sprang from that single spot but that the matter 'existed' before. One of the main ideas is that before the big bang the universe was falling into this singularity (black hole) and as more of the universe fell into it the black hole would gain mass and gravity drawing more and more of the universe into it at a faster rate. Finally just as the last remnants of the universe fell into the hole it bust back out and started anew. So in many ways we could say this has possibly happened many many times and time existed thought out all of them its just that no one was there to record it.

Answer 4

If you want it to have, then yes. Time is something of our own creation and we can interpret it how we like. It was invented to categorize different eras, years, and days. Now we have become too dependent on it and it has lost all meaning. It's simple. Time does not exist; not even right now. How do I know? Well, you tell me. Can you see it? Can you touch it? Can you smell it? Chances are, you can't do any of these. So if you define your opinion of "time" in it's entirety for me, perhaps I will be able to give an opinion, but how can one ask if time existed before the Big Bang if it does not exist now?

Answer 5

The big bang is a singularity. That means normal time stops at it. There is no concept of before.

But it is possible that imaginary time exist before and after. It has been proposed by Hawking and others to arrive at equations that describe the universe including the big bang, rather than having to stop at the big bang.

Answer 6

Theoretically? Because the Big Bang hasn't been proven to have even occurred. Stephen Hawkings now disputes a Big Bang, though he does hold to a singularity from which everything sprung. That could have occurred two ways, one being an infinitely rapid excelleration of everything into what it is now, or zero excelleration, where everything went from a state of ceasing to exist to existing. Time began at the singularity.

Answer 7

Are you really a fallen angel. We should meet. Now, that's a tough question. You see if you believe in God and the bible, time probably does not exist for God. But if I can't convince you to clear you mind of the big bang theary, then time only existed at he very instant the big bang occurs.

Answer 8

Before the big bang, there was the singularity an infinitly dence piece of condensed matter when it exploded and gave birth to all matter we see today time still had not begun since there were no beings to measure it.
If you believe in God the bible states he is "I am" he that has no beginning and no end. so that would mean to me there was no time before the big bang in religion.
If you believe in the big bang theory without religion, time is equl to energy and mass over what? "time" so the singularity even being infinatly small still has mass therefore by what we know today had to have time also no matter how small or large the frame of reference.

Answer 9

I do not know. But what or who cause the Big Bang? What does the universe look like before the Big Bang, I wonder.

Answer 10

even before the big bang there was a little bit of space being taken up. it was like everything in all of existance was cramed into a space the size of a pin tip. and since time and space are coexistant time would have existed even before the big bang.

Answer 11

No.

It is beyond our capabilities to ever know if time or matter existed before the big bang.. According to many, Big Bang is the event on which everything we know of began, what was before this event is left only for speculations.