Did space start as black or white? With stars or without? Is there a starting point where its all leaking from

Question

I try to picture space void of all colors and I can't wrap my mind around black or white, absence of all light and color. It had to start some where and if space is constantly expanding did it start from a middle and grow outward?

Answer 1

No one knows how the universe began or what it was like before the Big Bang. That's what theories like Super String Theory and anything you might have heard about membranes or 11- dimensional spaces are trying to answer. We only have a theory for what happened from the moment the universe began onwards and that's the Hot Big Bang theory and at this point, all of the "stuff" in the universe was created and the whole universe was expanding (and is expanding) away from itself. There were no stars and no galaxies in the beginning, just this plasma that was very very hot. Eventually it cooled enough that the universe became see through and through gravity, swirling gases formed galaxies and stars. At least, that's the basic idea. As for colors, color and light come from stars and from hot gases. If you cannot see any stars or heated gases, then it is black like a void. However, the light of stars and galaxies and interstellar medium never stops travelling through the universe and you would theoretically be able to see lit objects of some kind from anywhere in the universe. As for the colors, well, the colors we can see with our eyes are extremely limited when compared with all the colors of light that there are. UV light, radio waves, X-ray, microwaves, infrared, these are all forms of light that are invisible to us but that are being emitted by objects nonetheless.

As for how space is expanding, since the universe is infinite in space (there are several reasons scientists believe this is the case such as the lack of curvature of space) there is no center or middle of the universe and there is no one point from which the universe is expanding. Rather, the whole universe is expanding away from itself everywhere. It's hard to concieve of, but if you were standing anywhere in the universe, it would look like everything was moving away from you no matter where you were standing. If there was a center of the universe, then that would only happen if you were standing at the center and if you were anywhere else, it would look like stuff on one side of you was moving away while on the other side it was moving towards you.

Answer 2

It might sound strange, but space started white.

If you could have survived the conditions in the early universe, you'd have seen white in every direction. The temperature was too high for electrons to assume stable orbits around hydrogen or helium nuclei, so all matter was in the plasma state.

Plasma scatters radiation, much like fog obscures a landscape. Information regarding where the sources of light were gets lost, and the flux of radiation moving past you gets spread out in a nearly isotopic way.

There were no stars back then, but there was lots of radiation left over from the big bang. The universe's matter, being in the plasma state, would prevent you from learning about anisotropies (irregularities) in the glow, however.

When the universe cooled off enough for neutral atoms to form, space began to change from white-and-foggy to black-and-clear. But because light travels at a finite speed, you'd see the "front" of the cosmic background radiation retreating from you at that speed. As it got further away, it would redden and lessen in intensity.

Answer 3

If anything it was BLACK, even though there was no light... so therefore no absence of light... so no colours at all technically.

And no...there was no one point that the universe started from, and it is not expanding from any specific position in space. The universe doesn't have a centre point. Actually... if you reach the "edge" of the universe, you would just end up at the opposite "edge".

We think in 4 dimensions, so its nearly impossible to comprehend.

Answer 4

Don't think of space as colors. It limits you to what you can see with the naked eye. There are many theories on what space really is.Specific info on space and theories can be found atwww.space.com or a google search for "the elegant universe" there you can actually watch a movie with lots of answers to this and other questions you may have.Also try Stephen Hawkings book called"The Universe in a Nutshell".Its fascinating reading.GoodLuck!

Answer 5

space started without color. infinity was the start, infinity remains, in the infinite , of waves and colors stars come and go, planets are born to stars and we are born to planets, yet we are not any more removed from infinity when compared to any other entity.

Answer 6

get a bible and read the very first chapter.

Answer 7

That's what they say....