was the big bang the beginning of all (time, space etc) or is there a multiverse?...?

Question

in my view, by history, the human kind was always looking towards the world by taking itself into the center. first, earth was the only planet, then the sun circled around earth, then sun was the center, then the big bang. what if this was by far not the last station in which we are playing a more and more obvious side-role? what if our universe stands next to million others, like a bubble in a giant bubble bath?

Answer 1

To be honest there is no way of telling how big or expansive this realm we exist in actually is. However, Einstein has expressed his own opinion..... it goes something like this... "I imagined myself on a ray of light.... traveling through the universe.... trying to reach an end...only to find myself back where I started". In my opnion, I think Einstein is right on with this one........ I believe that the universe is comparable to Pac-Man's Universe. In Pac-Man's world he can start from the middle....... and travel all the way to the end of one side...... if he goes any further and 'breaches' his universe.... he comes back through the opposite side. He will end up in the same place he started from.....

Not sure if I helped or confused you....... just keep thinking grand. =)

Answer 2

The big bang was not the start of time, time existed before the big bang, so something was there before the explosion/collision.. Current thinking is the multiverse exists, as you say like a giant bubble bath, uncountable billions of universes. The religious right will tell you that God created everything, WRONG! Our universe exists because of an "event" that occurred at the edges of our nearest neighbouring universes.

God may have a place in the creation of the multiverse, but our universe is a consequence of "other" actions.

Answer 3

The Structure of Nothing . According to my peasant logic: 1 + 1 = 2.
Once upon a time, 20 billions of years ago, all matter
(all elementary particles and all quarks and
their girlfriends- antiparticles and antiquarks,
all kinds of waves: electromagnetic, gravitational,
muons… gluons field ….. etc.) – was assembled in a “single point”.
It is interesting to think about what had surrounded the “single point”.
EMPTINESS- NOTHING….!!!
Ok!
But why does everyone speak about EMPTINESS- NOTHING in
common phrases rather than in specific, concrete terms?
I wonder why nobody has written down this EMPTINESS- NOTHING in
the form of a physical formula ? You see, every schoolboy knows that
is possible to express the EMPTINESS- NOTHING condition
by the formula T=0K.
* * *
Once there was a “Big Bang”.
But in what space had the Big Bang taken place
and in what space was the matter of the Big Bang distributed?
Not in T=0K?
It is clear, that there is only EMPTINESS, NOTHING, in T=0K.
Now consider that the Universe, as an absolute frame of reference is
in a condition of T = 2,7K (rests relic radiation of the Big Bang ).
But, the relic radiation is extended and in the future will change and decrease.
What temperature can this radiation reach?
Not T=0K?
Hence, if we go into the past or into the present or into the future,
we can not escape from EMPTINESS- NOTHING T=0K.
Therefore it is necessary to begin to think from T=0K.
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Socratus

Answer 4

The Big Bang is the most probable way the universe started. I highly HIGHLY reccomend the book "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.

And to the last response, a black hole is not a hole. It is a star that has gone through the supernova stage, white dwarf stage, and neutron star stage, and is so dense, that a table spoon of it would weigh over one million tons. The theoretical "holes" got their names because the gravataional pull is so strong light cannot even escape.

Answer 5

Calculations of Universal rotational momentum indicate that our Universe has the same mass as a black hole of equivalent size. Therefore, it is entirely possible and probable for that matter that our universe is only an infinitesimally tiny black hole in another larger universe, and all black holes in our Universe could be other universes connected via these black holes. Unfortunately, it is theoretically proven impossible to come back through a black hole or send any information through, so trying to explore other universes is impossible for the masses. There are probably an infinite number of universes layered into each other in the form of black holes, however.

Answer 6

many scientists have tried to go and see what happened and what exists beyond this universe. like Einstein who took our imagination far beyond, i would advise you all to read books by Michio kaku, a very famous professor and scientist who is very successful now. he is taking our views far beyond us. he says universes are like bubbles floating in a multiverse and mutiverses in hyperverse. the books are .the best selling "hyper space" and another "parallel worlds". very useful to get a picture of whats next.

Answer 7

God is the beginning. As for the rest of your Q, you could quite possibly be right. Keep on asking questions and pondering and thinking big.