If the Universe is mainly empty space. What was there before the universe was created. Did the space not exist?
2006-10-08 09:11:14 · 19 answers · asked by ianip6 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That is technically 2 questions!
but empty space is not exactly 'empty' & is instead a seething latent hotbed for quantum activity.
Space as is generally thought of did not exist before the big-bang and Einstein showed that space & time are intricately linked, and space is referred to as space-time as it is one and the same thing.
2006-10-08 09:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by Inquisitive 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lets start at the beginning. Before the Big Bang there was Space but it was an empty void except for one infinitely small, infinitely dense singularity that contained all matter. When that singularity destabilized it exploded and flung matter out into the empty space. The matter came together to form galaxies stars planets etc. Of course this is all theory there may have been more big bangs before ours but we really don't know. As for space now it is made of 10% visible matter and 90% Dark matter that can not be seen but is there. However that's whole different subject.
2006-10-08 09:35:50 · answer #2 · answered by Blshear 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scientists might argue that nothing existed before the big bang because many of them assume that time is linear.
Nothing is an interesting word describing non-existence, yet the description is intellectually incoherent because all the optional descriptions refer to an entity that exists as an opposite to something. It is very much like the word 'God' that for many describes someone unimaginable. Nothing is unimaginable but its place in the order of matter has almost a canonical status in the context of being used as an expression of the percursor to the wildest creation theory that the world has evern known.
Big bang. Get a life.
2006-10-08 09:36:13 · answer #3 · answered by forgetful 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible for space to not exist. Nothing can exist without space. Before matter was born from the big bang or whatever, there was just total nothingness.
2006-10-08 09:42:52 · answer #4 · answered by cloud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We believe that the God has created space and time, so A.Einstein showed their common nature. Probably the space is closely related with matter, and matter (as the energy) have different forms of existence. This is not granted for sure now that the Big Bang really existed.
2006-10-08 09:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by Oakes 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Discussions on this subject tend to disappear up their own a***holes. Such as Stephen Hawking ,Neils Bohr & Max Planck explained these things. I thought I began to understand quantum mechanics until I tried to get my head round string theory! As to your question about "empty space" , it's a double negative which has no space!
2006-10-08 11:41:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not even the space existed. It was just a big nothing. Kinda deep 'eh?
2006-10-08 09:20:05 · answer #7 · answered by dww32720 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the head bit. The universe could be like the inside of someones head. A vacuum!
2006-10-08 09:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your head is empty space.
2006-10-08 09:12:26 · answer #9 · answered by Mr.Moo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Wmpty space' is a volume that contains nothing.
What was here before the 'Big Bang' was nothingness. No space-time, no mass-energy, no nothing.
Doug
2006-10-08 09:15:14 · answer #10 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋