2006-07-12 06:28:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In the standard version of the theory, both space and time appeared then. There are modifications that have time and/or space beforehand.
2006-07-12 06:55:48 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some scientists believe that the big bang wasn't the first big bang. There is a big bang that sends the contents of the universe outward, and then due to gravity, pulls them back in over the course of eons, until there is a Big Crunch and the universe explodes again. So as space is the nothingness that the universe resides in, I would say that space was there before the big bang.
Ok, now I'm dizzy and have to sit down. Oh, I am sitting. Never mind.
2006-07-12 13:34:11 · answer #2 · answered by Sean/Guy Wiley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody really knows for sure.
Physics can predict what was going on up to about a billionth of a second AFTER the big bang, but right now there are many competing theories (and no real evidence) for what happened before the event.
2006-07-12 13:33:15 · answer #3 · answered by jrlatmit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space Too
2006-07-12 14:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by savvy s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big bang, for a really good insight on this get a book called
A brief history of time by stephen hawkin,
he is probably the most brilliant mind of our life time
2006-07-12 13:32:58 · answer #5 · answered by brett_day2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋