What was here before the Big Bang?

Question

Assuming everything has a beginning and ending, there must have been something before the Big Bang.

Answer 1

One of the greatest questions if not the greatest ever asked probablly. This is definitly a philosophical and not a scientific question. I've heard all the scientific and new age jargon for I have no clue. When you think about it, it makes more sense to conclude that something has always existed (Which I believe is God) then for something to be created from nothing. Pi and non perfect squae square roots are very difficult to deal with because they go on to infinity without a clear patern. The universe also stretches on for infinity as far as we can tell. Yet, I have never heard of something coming from nothing. We cannot comprehend infinity because we have finite minds. God probablly kept us from understanding this because it is a key to the universe. How much more powerful is a device that can control the very fabric of the universe then an atomic bomb. If we fully understood hurricanes then we could control them. Likewise, God keeps us from knowing these things because he is the rightful controler of the universe which humbles us. Somehow these infinitly long numbers form pi and most square roots and likewise God's infinite history forms what He is today. We might never truly understand it, but the best explanation is still that God is "the Alpha and the Omega; the beggining and the end". He was, is, and always will be.

Answer 2

there's a lot of hypothesis, however the *basically* properly suited answer on your question approximately what grew to become into in the previous the super Bang is UNKNOWN. all the super Bang concept certainly states is that the universe was smaller. this is it...! it quite is *not* a introduction tale. the super Bang concept is in simple terms a proof of ways the universe has developed and developed over the final 13.7 billion years. It makes no assumptions approximately "the place" stuff got here from, it only evaluates the observations and the ideas we've gained, and provides us a particularly finished style of ways the universe has behaved on account that approximately 10^-30 (this is 0.0000000000000000000000000000001) seconds after the super Bang. something in the previous that element in time we don't comprehend and may be able to not degree because of the fact the regulations of physics, as we understand them, wreck down in the previous that element... you attain a *mathematical* singularity, the place we do exactly not comprehend what occurred, and how area, time, rely, and potential behaved, because of the fact the regulations of their habit does not have been in place yet. So once you're curious as to "the place" and "how" it began, the super Bang concept can not take you there. it may get you as a techniques back interior the previous as we are able to correctly degree.

Answer 3

The universe brought time with it. There is some scientific theory that speculates about the beginning. The theory utilizes quantum weirdness, or quantum indeterminacy, if you prefer. So-called quantum jitters in a scalar field (math term) caused an area that would normally measure zero energy to go into a state where it was not quite zero, and this imbalance caused time and space to unfurl in four dimensions, while six or seven other dimensions curled up really small inside the fabric of space. It is this fabric that gives things like electrons and quarks their properties, which leads to protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, and eventually bunny rabbits.

Btw, light didn't appear until about 350,000 years after the Big Bang. Before that time photons were getting absorbed as quickly as they were being emitted in the intense high energy and density of the primordial matter. After 350,000 years, the universe had cooled down enough so photons were free to travel. Then there was light.

Answer 4

there is a part of string theory that supposes that there are 2 membranes or strings---huge in 2 dimensions like sheets of paper that wave exteremely slowly and occassionally touch...this touch causes an exchange of energy, like a big bang...but here's the wierd thing...we're talking extra dimensions here, these membranes are extended into possibly 11 dimensions (the probabable number theorized by "stringies")...we could not exist in the so called "space" between the membranes, but live in 3 dimensions on what, to us (comprehending only 4 dimensions) would be like living on one of the membranes....but these membranes are very complex and the "side" of this membrane comprises what we call the universe. One coould suppose that another sister universe was created, in another dimension we are unaware of, on the other membrane.

This portion of the theory also contends that this "touching" or spark between membranes has happened an infinite number of times and will happen again an infite number of times...if the universe makes you seem like a speck of dust, then this should ,make you feel even smaller.

I don't completely swallow this, though I was interested enough to read and get a brief understanding of it...I think it resembles a religion or faith way too much. It can't be proven...it can be reasoned out, but so can Heaven and Hell. It requires faith in logic based on what science knows now...I guess the Chinese version of the universe (that all was carried on the back of a giant turtle) was as good an explanation as any.

Answer 5

Before the big bang, there was no space OR time. Technically, there was not even 'nothing' before the big bang. Since there was no time before the big bang, nothing 'caused' the big bang. Since there was no space before the big bang, the big bang didn't happen 'somewhere'.

There are those who believe in a metaverse (multiple universes), in which our universe exists, and the beginning of our universe may have had meaning as an event in its parent universe, but within this universe, we would perceive a causeless big bang.

btw, current best estimates of the fate of the universe is called 'heat death', which leaves the universe expanding for infinite time, eventually so fast that all matter is torn apart into its constituent particles.

Answer 6

I think that just before the big bang there was a singularity. That would mean that the total universe was contained in one point. There was no length width height or time. The singularity exploded into the big bang.

The singularity was created by a random quantum fluctuation. This random quantum fluctuation occurred outside of time therefore being one of an infinite number of fluctuations. Given an infinite number of fluctuations our universe and all possible universes must have been created. Therefore there also must be all possible parallel universes

Answer 7

I'm afraid this question doesn't really have a conclusive answer. Everything we know breaks down at the point of the big bang. All science, all math, even time as we know it is based on the pricinples set forth by the big bang. Therefore its really up to the imagination.

Answer 8

So everything has a begining. The big bang WAS the begining. Therefore before the big bang there was nothing.

Answer 9

What if there is no beginning?
There is a lot of evidence against the Big Bang as it is currently taught.
If you want the acceptable answer, then the answer is "nothing", and out of nothing came "The Singularity", which eventually yielded the Big Bang.

This all happened in the 'non-existent' ether.

Answer 10

Yes, there was an implosion from the end of the previous Big Bang like there will be with this latest big bang, when the universe stops expanding and comes back on itself.