Who/What created the "singularity" from which the Big Bang came?

Question

Just because something gets "recursive" does not imo rule it out. You do have to answer who or what started it all? The obvious answer is God.

Answer 1

God the creator is responsible. Read Genesis.

Answer 2

We would love to know.
Physicists know the limits of the current laws that are used to describe the universe, they are fine for most situations but clearly become invalid above a certain temperature (=energy density). Looking at the current universe and rolling things back gives an age for the universe of about 13.5 billion years but for the first tiny part of this we have no way of understanding what was happening.
There was probably no 'singularity' - quantum mechanics retains enough validity to say that this is impossible but the initial universe was certainly much smaller than an atom.
The what question will probably never be answered but using the principle that the simplest explanation is generally right it was probably some sort of quantum fluctuation.
Who can be ruled out because that is just a rephrasing the question as 'Who/what created the who'. This gets recursive and leads nowhere.

Answer 3

We can't tell. The big bang is not the instant the universe began, but just a point at which the universe started to change. We can't speculate any further than that point because at infintely hot and infintely mass, the laws of physics breaks down and no longer apply. We have no tools to speculate any further.

The religious like to invoke the "God of the gaps" argument at this point. If there's anything that science cannot answer, then the religious like to use it as an excuse for the existence and divine nature of God. The problem with this is that as science has moved foward, religion has moved steadily backwards. 1000 years ago, people used God to explain everything outside of human understanding... The turn of the days, stars in the sky, disease and famine... but as we learned more about solar cycles, astronomy, microbiology and meterology, the religious retreat there arguments for God tothe point where the unknown lies.... until the unknown becomes known and then they retreat further.

The truth is, nobody knows the nature of God, what he's done or what he will do. They just like to think that they do.

Answer 4

No one knows. It could be that there have been endless cycles of Big Bangs followed by Big Crunches (when the Universe shrank down to a singularity) followed by Big Bangs, forever.

"Creation" implies a human-like intelligence, but there's no reason why something like a singularity needed to be created by anything remotely human, or even human-like. The Universe manages to be very large and complex on its own, without our help.

Answer 5

The hardest part of accepting the answer to this question is that humans hate it. The universe was not created by someone or something. It simply began out of nothing, just as quantum physics shows us that matter can appear and disappear out of nothing. This is difficult for us to accept as it makes our existence seem more trivial and happenstance; which is disappointing for most people. You must accept that the universe just began and before it there was (probably) nothing. No space, no time, no nothing.

Answer 6

As for a singularity or big bang, that is just supposition. So, let's see if it is true before we start speculation on speculation.

Answer 7

good question, when you make up a testable hypothesis tell us about it, just keep in mind that it has to be testable.

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