How did all that matter that possibly exploded outward in the Big Bang get squeezed into that tiny space?

Question

Where did that matter come from? What or where was its origin?

Please don't respond just to tell me the Big Bang definitely, not possibly, happened.

Answer 1

In the beginning -- in that tiny space smaller than the period at the end of this sentence -- there was no matter. Instead, there was energy and heat ... an incredibly huge amount of both.

During the Big Bang that followed, there was a series of "phase transitions" where different things happened as the very young universe cooled down.

The matter you're asking about came from energy (e = mc^2), but only when the universe was cool enough for matter to form and stabilize. That was a part of the Big Bang, but it was not the beginning.

Answer 2

Some scientists speculate that the big bang was caused by tri-dimensional branes (derived from membrane) that collided. These are scientists that speculate that there are multiple universes. Though this theory used to be considered pure sci-fi, it is gaining some respectability among the newer generation of physicists. On the other hand scientists will admit that they are still all mystified by what gravity really is and intense gravity would be necessary to keep all that stuff "stick" together in such an infinitely small space. On the other hand, matter is energy, so the energy which takes up no space might have become matter. When that energy "exhausted" itself a little bit, the cooling that ensued might have caused the energy to evolve into matter. Basically, a lot of people would love to know the answer to that one but nobody does.

Answer 3

Think about it this way: Scientists theorize that before the Big Bang, matter existed in the form of a singularity. A singularity is a one dimensional point in space-time in which gravitational forces constrict matter to both infinite density and infintesimal volume simultaneously. Space and time within it become infinitely distorted, but that's beside the point.

What I'm trying to say is, because scientists view the universe in a state of expansion (due to the observation of red shift amongst stars), its only logical to retrace that action all the way back to its orignal state--which would be in the form of that singularity.

Think of a video playing forwards, as normal. That's our current state of the universe--expansion, moving foward. Now think of rewinding that video, and how, even if you weren't there to view how it would look after it finished rewinding, you could logically come to the conclusion that it would be at its beginning, ready for play yet again. Scientists have done the same thing for our universe, and it doesn't do well to dwell on "how" something is, (i.e. "how" does all that matter exist in one small space right before the Big Bang?) because it just...did. That's all we can say. Most of all matter is really empty space anyway, so think about that.

Answer 4

My theory, as silly as that sounds, is that like everything else in nature it is/was a cycle. Perhaps these black holes that swallow up everything compress this matter, light, and energy and once it reaches a terminal point, a big bang results. Perhaps there is a theory out there by an actual astrophysicist that goes something like that, if so I would agree with it. But if you think about it, that is all nature is, is a cycle that repeats itself, run by some sort of feedback system, so why would this be any different?
As for where all the original energy, matter, and time came from, I don't think it's even feasible to suppose where it all came from.

Answer 5

We don't know where all this matter came from, that's the problem. No one knows. It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in religion or science or both or neither, there are only two explanations that we can possibly come up with: either something was created from nothing, or everything has always existed.

How all that matter gets squeezed into such a small space isn't hard to imagine though. Most matter is made of space itself. Molecules, atoms and subatomic particles are separated by extreme amounts of space. Compacting matter into a tiny space is concievable.

Answer 6

In the state immediately before the big bang, the gathered matter would have been so great as to increase the temperature exponentially beyond anything recordable in the current known universe. Only after the matter separated and cooled did it reduce itself eventually to the scale with which we are familiar. So don't think of the big bang erupting from a small ball of matter. Think of it as an unimaginably large ball of matter, leaving an unimaginably large vacuum where it once was, now the center of the universe.

Answer 7

I won't answer this question as such because some of the people here have given good explanations....except to say that the breakdown of current physical laws at the beginning is why scientists are trying to come up with a theory of Quantum Gravity. However I feel that trying to reconcile GR (General Relativity) and QP (Quantum Physics) will be a waste of time. What they will have to do is workout a theory for gravity under those conditions that prevailed at the time of initial existence. It will also apply to gravity's present characteristics in the quantum realm as well. I think they'll eventually find that the link to GR is indirect, such as the conditions under which gravity finds itself in both the macroscopic realm of GR and the microscopic of QP are entirely different. That in each, gravity acts differently and has different physical values.

Answer 8

Matter as we know it did not exist then. Mater started getting created when the size of the expanding universe allowed it, from energy to matter, E=mc^2.

Now, how did so much energy got squeezed in such a tiny place?
No one knows. Our current physic tools and theories do not apply to the conditions that existed back then, so we cannot work all our way back to that time.

Answer 9

When you're talking about the big bang and stuff like that, you're talking about conditions so extreme that all the laws of physics that apply now break down.
That's why it's so hard to determine what actually happened, because we can't apply anything we know from modern observations.

Answer 10

Well first you should understand the theory of singularity and multiplicity.

1.singularity theroy:you know today black holes exit.then you should know that before black hole there was star & matter but after the star exploded and foremed into black hole after crossing the event horizon there comes singularity.you know all this but before singularity there was mater.

2.multiplicity theroy:you know that after big bang there come mater & star's but you don't know that our universe is repiting the same old big bang like reverseing it to get information of our universe that how is it after singularity there's multiplicity and after multiplicity there's singularity.

know coming to your ? well after the star's death bigger than sun it forms as black holes nothing escapes from it nor light nor anything only X-rays where the hole is ending all mater squeeze's and that all out goes as X-ray to our own universe.know come to star birth there is nothing after some pico seconds there is some thing like gravity & mater like gases & after some few hunered years there is star.

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