Who/what started the Big bang of the universe?

Question

to all atheist out there, is there an answer to this question?

Answer 1

I know many people would say "God". Being an agnostic, I just don't really know.

Answer 2

This rather depends on whether one accepts the idea of the "Big Bang" in the first place. There are ample grounds for skepticism. For instance, see Halton Arp's book on the interpretation of redshifts. And the existence of the so-called "Great Wall of Galaxies" is not consistent with a Big Bang, since there has not been sufficient time in that model for it to form.

Also, trying to answer the question as you have phrased it is an example of the logical fallacy called "begging the question". If you are perplexed by the fact that anything exists, it does not help to postulate the existence of a deity. You are just putting the existential question in a box and pretending that that answers it. The core mystery remains.

Answer 3

The Big Bang Theory

Representation of the universe according to inflationary cosmology.
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 4

The Big Bang had no creator, it happen. If you were looking for an answer like God did it, than a counter example is where did God come from or who created God - and don't say nobody created God or God created himself. Has anyone even seen God to know if God is a male or female or to ask him/her that the universe was created by him/her. There is really no evident answer to this question, but science is getting close. Just read some Physics and Astrology books and it should fullfill your need to find an answer.

Answer 5

Regardless .

If you pulled absolutly nothing apart , u get matter and corresponding anti-matter. This is a phenomena called "pair creation" (particle physics) Noticed and catalogued by space probes during the cold war (so long ago we already knew)

Which gives credence to the Big Bang theory. (in the 1st place).


To return to God ,, is to return to the void , (nothingness). If the Universal debt is ever resolved we return to the void.


And ,, because photon is its own anti-matter it is so important to know if the balance is lopping one way ,, in such manner if the balance is shifted , such that we can perpetuate Creation. But , alas , no. In 1996 Germany proved the photon is pair matched , in a small little newspaper article that hardly any one notices.

That means God's balance is still intact and in a contracting universe we could still return to God.


I don't know who or what started the Big Bang , , but the raw material of the Universe is "nothing". Correctly called the void.

Answer 6

well there was this big bearded man in white robes and he farted real loud and then the rest happened.

And on a more serious note: Why don't you read up on it before you try to bait people with inane questions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang

I mean, I read your bible, least you can do is read about my side. And then decide if you will take the side of the ravings of 2000 year old barbarians collected in a big book or the rational empiric observations made by scientists that are internally consistent.

Answer 7

It may have been a giant fart

Answer 8

i think it was an american