What was before that, and what was before that, and what..........
2006-10-02 12:59:42 · 11 answers · asked by oligopistoi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The unarguably correct answer is: No-one knows. Lots of people will tell you that it's not even a meaningful question, since time began with the big bang - there couldn't have been a 'before'.
2006-10-02 13:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the Big Bang perhaps?
The answer is, nobody knows. Of course, there are some intresting things in physics regarding time here. Perhaps there was no time before the Big Bang, which means in a way, there was no "before" at all.
But I think you are really getting at is "what CAUSED the Big Bang?"
Many Xians are tempted to say "God of course". You run into a couple of fallacies here, however. First, you create an infinite regression, that is if the Big Bang must have a cause, then so must God, and then so must the thing that caused God, and so on. If you say "God doesn't need a cause" then you can also say "The Big Bang doesn't need a cause". Secondly, there is the phenomenon of "The God of the Gaps". Historically religous people have attempted to explain gaps in scientific knowledge by attributing these unsolved mysteries to God. Over time, of course, these gaps close as we answer more and more questions through scientific inquiry. The cause of the Big Bang is yet another "God of the Gaps"
2006-10-02 20:06:03 · answer #2 · answered by Skippy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Skippy's right about there being no "before" the Big Bang, just as there is no "north" of the North Pole. Since time started with the very first instant of the Big Bang, there was never a time when the universe did not exist. And since there was no time "before" the Big Bang, there could have been no "cause" of it, because causes always precede their effects, and in this case there was no possibility of "preceding" at all.
2006-10-02 20:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by wleef2002 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Big Boom! That's what happens when my daddy eats cabbage...every time!
2006-10-02 20:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by Clem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only big boom was when God set things into motion by creating earth and all upon it. Before that, God just was....ok?
2006-10-02 20:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Forever 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
biblical answer is God.
the other answers of time started then is correct from the astromonomy / physics point of view.
There was a singularity of mass and energy, and it just decided it was time to expand (nuclear forces overcoming gravitational forces). no one knows why it picked that time to do its stuff
2006-10-02 20:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*Big Bang*.
No one knows.
Kendra:
You have got to be kidding?
That is without doubt the WORST understanding of the big bang I have ever heard. It doesn't even have to do with the big-bang.
2006-10-02 20:01:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another universe. It dies, collapses, and then booms again.
2006-10-02 20:12:26 · answer #8 · answered by Kaiser32 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'THe Big Bang thery is just that a thery--and no one on eath now what was b4--or how the univers was started--now 'i' get pounded by all the armchai Physists
2006-10-02 20:04:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
before the big bang there was nothing but stars and planets...the big bang made volcanos and the volcanos made the land we walk on
2006-10-02 20:02:54 · answer #10 · answered by Kendra 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋