If the universe was created through the big bang, what was it that exploded and how did it get there?

Question

Wow! To those of you who are angry by my question, please don't be. I'm just curious to see what someone who believes differently than I do has to say about the theory. I did not intend on making anyone's blood pressure go up.

Answer 1

According to scientists matter cannot be created in the absence of matter.

This means that people who believe we were created via a large explosion have beliefs that are as equally far fetched as creationists.

Nobody knows the answer to your question although they will talk at length about it.

Answer 2

Let's get serious.

Clues obtained by observation and measurement, point to the Big Bang happening, but in reality it is just a theory, and not even the brightest scientist on Earth can explain or hope to visualise the pre-Big Bang scenario.

There are things we can be aware of in the universe, and even be able to use, without being able to fully understand and be able to visualise them. For instance, electricity. We can 't live without it. Scientists theorise that it is a stream of electron particles, but nobody has seen an electron, and nobody can visualise the true nature of electricity - it is convenient to imagine it as a stream of particles, and it works.

So, don't be dismayed by the fact you do not understand what came before, or how the universe could have no end or indeed how it could have an end. Nobody can understand it, even if mathematics predicts it.

I am not a religious person, but it always amazes how people pooh-pooh the Bible creation story, but ready to accept the theory that predicts that the whole of the universe, where stars are more numerous than the grains of sand on Earth, popped out of nothing at a finite time in the past.

Answer 3

a very hot speck. the speck was not "matter" as we think of it, because it was too dense. before it exploded, there wasn't even empty space. space and time were born when the speck started to explode.

p.s. the big bang theory does not go against the belief that God created the world. actually, everything that scientists have found shows the first three words of the Bible to be true: in the beginning...

scientists used to think that the Universe has always existed. but with the discovery of redshift and background radiation, they have concluded that the Universe had to have a beginning (called a 'singularity' in scientific terms)

the big bang theory does not deny the existence of a Creator.

Answer 4

Jizzmopper nailed it.

Uh, it wasn't an explosion, rather, a collision. Who knows how it got there. Point being that if the big bang did happen, it's in the past, and it doesn't matter. Nor does the creation of the universe because aside from it being around today, it does not effect you. Logically speaking, you do not need to know how the universe was created, nor how it will be destroyed. Chances are neither happened in your life time. Therefore, you wasted your precious time on Earth asking a question that can never be fully answered.

Answer 5

There was no explosion in the Big Bang.

There are several theories about what caused the Big Bang but they all result in a creation of the Space-Time we now know.

In the beginning space itself was extremely small and that caused a pressure that resulted in ultra heat. That is way it was similar to explosion. But since there wasn't even matter then then it is like no explosion that we now know.

BTW, apart from the Big Bang and God there are other theories about the universe...

Answer 6

Space itself exploded. In the beginning, as far as they can tell, there was an incredibly small, incredibly hot, incredibly high energy that got larger (exploded), cooling down in the process.

How it got there in the first place is possibly due to a random quantum fluctuation. Given enough "time", anything can happen by chance. Piling up energy, or, more likely, creating it out of nothing, only has to happen once.

Answer 7

The Big Bang is still a theory. Supposedly the bang occurred from a very small and dense mass. If you find out where it came from, let me know! Best wishes.

Answer 8

Well, the Science Channel suggests that the universe may either keep expanding or reacha limit then reverse. If so it might have been the universe retracting into such a small area that it blew up.

Answer 9

well the scientific answer u wood hear from most scientist is that their was lots of gasses bak then and their was so much friciton caused by somthing that caused it to scater threw the univers and im srry for the answer cause i forget the whole thing but it is somthin like that

Answer 10

If you are looking for someone to say God is how it got there, well I just said it. BUT now I submit MY quandry!! "How did GOD get there?" Uh oh, looks like the same question!

See how you can't answer everything with, "God did it, cause it is written in the bible."

By this logic Jews and blacks must all be killed because it is written in "Mein Kampf."

btw, both books written by man and are sheise.