in the beginning there was nothing.Then it went bang.What went Bang?

Question

How was the big bang big if there was nothing to go bang?

Answer 1

The Big Bang theory starts a fraction of a second _after_ the bang. As a famous physicist said: "The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, how it banged, or why it banged."

As with evolution, there's no reason why science and religion have to fight about this one. The territory of science is what happened right after the bang. We know a lot about that, and it's based on solid evidence. What banged, why it banged and who did it is the territory of religion. We know virtually nothing about that, and have no real scientific evidence about it. Scientifically, saying a higher power caused it is just as valid as "branes".

It's one reason why many scientists who believe in Big Bang theory are also religious.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the beginning of time (for us at least) IS the big bang, so we can never know what was there before it! It could have been a star going into supernova, some theories are that it was a collision between matter and antimatter (and matter obviously won because we exist), but it's all theoretical. It definitely wasn't "nothing" because otherwise nothing would happen!

We can analyse data from stars that are hundreds of millions of light years away, and that information can tell us what material existed, and what happened, literally moments after the big bang occurred. The older the data we get, the closer to the big bang and the beginning of time (as we know it) we get.

Read "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking, or even the sequel, "A Briefer History of Time" that explains stuff like this really simply and really well.

Answer 3

In the beginning reality did not exist for man because our race was not around. Reality began only after an evolutionary process that lead to a being being produced that was able: to think; use tools and make decisions. This Evolutionary process is still evolving and no human knows where it will end.
How the big bang occurred is anyones Guess but a question may answer that. At what stage did reality occur that allowed for the evolution of mankind to propagate, was it a Milli second after ignition, Who Knows? Evolution must go a lot further forward before we find the answer.

Answer 4

The Big bang theory doesn't telling that in the beginning there was nothing...


The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.
In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance.

The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.

Answer 5

The big bang is that everything went bang. If the universe is expanding it must be expanding from a central point.. if all the mass in the universe started off at that central point.. the big bang is event that started everything expanding..

so the real question is how did the mass get there in the first place? was that the creation from the bible? hmm who knows?

Answer 6

According to M Theory atleast 2 membranes of energy collided in a different dimension and forced massive amounts of energy into our dimension in this universe.

This is just a theory only. It helps fill in some holes from the Big Bang Theory but M Theory has a few holes itself.

Also in reference to the religious fanatics. god has nothing to do with this. It might just be some geek in a higher dimension that made this universe as a science project.

Answer 7

There was a big superdense mass known as the primeval cloud which predated the Big Bang and that was what went Bang.

Answer 8

We don't have any evidence that there ever was nothing. All that we can be confident of is that approximately 13.7 billion years ago, a incredibly hot and dense lump of matter existed and started to expand, expanding the universe with it. There's no direct method for looking past that time to see what may have or may have not existed prior to it.

Answer 9

It is called the big bang theory. Theory. Just another way for snob scientists to make themselves superior to the lesser mortals. Also it is a way for them to continue to deny the existence of God.

Of course they cannot tell your either.

Answer 10

Hard/impossible to tell. Perhaps there always was something highly compressed, it came from another dimension or you don't always have to have cause in order to get effect (something came out of nothing for no reason).