What existed before time?

Question

Assuming that the big bang theory is correct, then everything must have originated from one central object. Does this mean that this object was just sitting there for trillions of years before the big bang actually happened? Or is it possible that everything in the universe is not expanding from a central point, but just moving in random directions?

Answer 1

Time does not exist. It is just a convenient way for us to count and track events.

Answer 2

Good question!

The Big Bang theory is just that - a theory. Before anything existed, according to this theory, there existed the "potential" for something to exist. Some call this potential a "Singularity", a single tiny point of high potential energy that later exploded into the universe.

If this is so, then we are faced with a contradiction. How can there be Nothing before the universe was created at the Big Bang, if the "Singularity" existed? Because the "Singularity" is a Something! Further, where did that Singularity exist, if "space" didn't exist before the Big Bang occurred?

This brings us to two basic questions: "If the Singularity existed before the Big Bang occured, then how did it come into being?"

The other question is how is there such beauty and order in the universe? It does not appear to be random or chaotic.

If we are intellectually honest, the logical answer would be that the universe, and the "singularity", if such a thing ever existed, was created! But created by What...better yet, created by Whom? Who was the first cause of the universe?

This brings us to reflect on the nature of being and Eternal Being, that exists somehow behind all space and time. We would call such a Being, God. ;)

In considering how the universe came to exist and its orderliness, it was Albert Einstein, the great physicst and atheist, himself who finally had to remark, "God does not play dice with the universe."

I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Everything did originate from one Central object in the big bang though it was only because all of the matter floated back into it similar to a supermassive black hole. Currently, we are being sucked back into a central supply where how the universe must work in a continous cycle of expansion and contraction.

Another theory is that there is no begining and no end such as explained vaugly in the popular movie "Animal House" and explained in detail int he book, "I Am Alive, You Are Dead" written by Emmanuel Carrère. This theory was also featured inth e opening sequence of a simpsons episode where it shows that hte assembly of our universe can simply be of a larger universe and that we are the assembly of many universes ourselves.

Although, Assuming that there is a begining, there must be an end and many will rest to say, God created everything. And Before God, I honestly don't know.

Thank you for this excellent question.

Answer 4

Your question is based on a false assumption: The big bang theory says nothing about the beginning of the universe. Common misconception. The big bang deals with what happened after the universe began expanding. As far as we know, it has been expanding and contracting forever. Or perhaps a multidimensional universe spawns universes like ours constantly as part of its natural function. Lots of other possibilities.

Regarding the second part of your question, current evidence indicates that the universe is expanding in all directions from a central point, not randomly.

Answer 5

I believe that time does exist; it is a vital component of the special theory of relativity. However, the notion that time has to have had a beginning is where our evolutionary existence has tricked us. We live our daily lives in fixed cycles, we are born, we sleep every 24 hours and we die. All of our lives, thoughts, and experiences have a link to a beginning and an end. This notion is so deeply meshed with our existence that we usually fail to realize that this is only a human idea. The matter in the physical universe is in a constant state of motion; splitting, recombining, and changing. I believe that this matter is infinite, has always existed, and will never end. It has no beginning or end in both terms of time and space. Everything in the human earthly existence has a beginning and an end. No other known species has this awareness and therefore most consider humans on the “top” of the tree. We could be viewed as the only species with this “conceit” and there is much yet to learn.
And then again, we could just be a figment of a dream that a deity is having while napping in a field of saffron blossoms that resides on a Lotus inside a naval of a lemur.

Answer 6

Some people refer to the Big Bang as the "uncaused first cause." Where science breaks down (and philosophers and theologens take over) is over the question of how anything in the natural universe -- even time, space, and matter -- can be "uncaused." The best (but by no means only) answer to date is that a transcendent being (ie. God) set things in motion.

Answer 7

You are correct in your assumption that the big bang theory originated from one point but then moved outward from that point in random directions. However that was not the gist of your question. Nothing existed before time and nothing existed after time. Time is an artificial construct of a sentient man to mark when things pass. Cosmic objects such as planets, comets, asteroids, etc. do not mark any passing time so they exist only in our time and reality.

Answer 8

I think that there was actually no time, time is a dimention linked to space, so before the big bang, there was no space, and therefore, no time! in other words, time didn't exist. Maybe there was a big crunch before the big bang (an old universe that collapsed under the effect it's own gravity, which is what is expected to be the end of our own universe) but who knows?!

Answer 9

well..before the big bang, was there time-space? if the big bang theory is correct then there should be no time and space before that and hence "that object's" existace can not be told in terms of time, and was there an object at all? or was this object so highly compact that its size was ZERO...well, if the big bang theory is correct and if there was no space before that, then nothing could have existed which means "that object" had a zero size and occupied no space at all

Answer 10

Time is the measure of events. Between any two events which are not simultaneous, there is a lapse, an interval, the passage of which we call time. Prior to the bang, everything was supposedly compressed into one piece, so to speak, so there were no two objects between which for any events to occur. So, in that sense, prior to the bang, there was no time at all.

(I don't necessarily believe that, but it's what the learned scientists say.)

Answer 11

Time is just an illusion stuck in your head. There is no time.
And the Universe, i believe is from one central point. expanding to infinite, once reaching infinity, it will bounce back towards it central point and collapsing the universe, then once it collapses, it expands once again, replaying the universe life over and over and over again infinite times.
So we will live again, once the universe hits the infinte point of space, boucing back, and goind back again.
So simple isn't it???
LMAO amazing i even know this stuff considering im only 14 years old