Before the big bang?

Question

We are told that before the big bang, laws of physics as we know them today did not exist. No dimension or time. This being the case the bang itself was a change of state, so time must have been or the bang could not start? Please explain.

Answer 1

well i wasnt there but im pretty sure it doesnt really matter what happened xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Answer 2

I'd like to take a nonprofessional shot at this one.

I beleive time can only exist if there is a quantity or entity or object or matter to measure against. time has to be relative to something, kind of like the tree in the forest if there is nothing to register or measure the sound, is there a sound? well, we know there is but if there is no one or nothing to measure time, or nothing to equate a standard to for the time, there can be no 'time'. Time currently is measured by an atomic clock somewhere in England, relative to atomic pulses. Time could not start without the 'Bang', so in this case the Bang came first and time immediately followed.

Aside from the time question, an observation re the Big Bang. Intellectually, mans' thinking process, his rational process, insists on some sort of begining and an eventual end. Most everything we know about has a cycle. Suns, Solar Systems, life, seasons, rotation around the sun Just about everything you can name has a start and finish and then maybe a rebirth of sorts, but everything cycles somehow...this all started somewhere back there...right? Not necessarily. One could say, what if it always was, maybe not as we see the Universe today, but matter has always existed. Thats an erie feeling, if you allow the concept 'in'. Always been here...always, never had a begining...growth through 'galactic' big bang events, but the thought that this has been going on forever...scary, but I suspect true. I think S. Hawking recently publically acknowledged something similar. I'm not sure what his reasoning is, but its got to be similar.

Answer 3

LOL. The question answers itself: The Big Bang is a Big Hoax. First of all, if we have physical laws today, then logically, there must be a lawgiver. Duh! Things do not happen on their own, especially very complex structures, without any intelligence behind it. Space, matter and time, according to science, had to come into existence in the same time. Because, if there were no space, where would you put the matter; and, without time when would you put it? Genesis 1:1 answers your question but many people do not take the time to analyze the verse intellectually: In the beginning (time) God create the Heavens (Space/ dimensions) and the Earth (matter). The verse written thousands of years ago is supported by modern science that shows us that time, space and matter must have had to come into existence together. So, this proves the BIble is accurate and, foremost, God is more real than anyone can imagine.

Answer 4

The thing you have to remember about physics is that it is mostly based on theories that can neither be proved or disproved. As far as we are able to tell the laws of physics would not have existed as we know them before the big bang (mainly because they are physical laws and there was nothing physical before the big bang), that doesn't mean that other laws didn't exist or that the laws we know didn't exist but we have no way of knowing for sure.

Answer 5

As physics tells us today before the big bang the mass was concentrated with infinite density. So no dimensions. Can we not think it this way that when dimension of time came the item started expanding and when the item started expanding that was the begining of time? However the laws of physics relating to this 4th dimension is still just floating clouds with no firm hold and hence we cannot say.

Answer 6

"Cosmologists Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have a radical idea that could wipe away these mysteries. They theorize that the cosmos was never compacted into a single point and did not spring forth in a violent instant. Instead, the universe as we know it is a small cross section of a much grander universe whose true magnitude is hidden in dimensions we cannot perceive. What we think of as the Big Bang, they contend, was the result of a collision between our three-dimensional world and another three-dimensional world less than the width of a proton away from ours—right next to us, and yet displaced in a way that renders it invisible. Moreover, they say the Big Bang is just the latest in a cycle of cosmic collisions stretching infinitely into the past and into the future. Each collision creates the universe anew. The 13.7-billion-year history of our cosmos is just a moment in this endless expanse of time."

Answer 7

The laws we have now probably did not exist prior to the Big Bang, but we really don't know for sure. It is incorrect to emphatically state that there were no dimensions and no time as we don't know what did or did not exist prior to the Big Bang.

Answer 8

I believe God was always here and while I do not believe in Evolution at all I do believe that it is possible that God could have decided to go Bang Bang in the early days of Creation before creating the Earth.

Im like if a Big Bang really happened then who do ya think caused it?

Answer 9

Eons before the world, planets and time existed, space was populated by fish. Unfortunately, most of the fish lacked imagination, and named there offspring Gerald. This of course led to mass confusion, and arguing between the various waring factions of fish-tribes. For many decades this war continued, until the leader of the feared Haddock clan (Gerald the Great) decided he'd invent something that would cause considerable destruction on the other fish. Gerald invented the "Big Bang."
Gerald's weapon was used only once.

Answer 10

Time didn't exist, but there were other dimensions, so they were the cause of the bang in the first place.

Answer 11

I AM NOT TOTALLY HAPPY WITH THE BIG BANG THEORY. AS FOR TIME THAT IS ONLY A PART OF LIFE ALL ANIMALS HAVE A IN BUILT SEANCE OF TIME ITS WHY WE WE SURVIVED AND OTHER ANIMALS SURVIVED LONGER THEN THE HUMAN KIND.
TIME IS A SEANCE OF FINDING A PLACE GOOD FOR LIVING AND BEING THERE AT THE RIGHT TIME TO EAT THE FOODS THAT ARE ON THE PLAINS OF HISTORY AND THE HUMAN FOLLOWED THE BEAST AND FOUND TIME IN THE SHAPE OF MIGRATING ANIMALS. AS FOR THE BIG BANG HOW MANY BIG BANGS HAVE WE HAD IN OUR UNIVERSE ARE WE NEVER ENDING WITH NO BEGINNING. MOLEXUK.