Did time and space exist before the big bang?

Question

If not, what was "there" before the big bang?

Answer 1

Time and space came into existence only after the Big Bang. Prior to the Big Bang, the only thing "there" was a singularity, which had no dimensions of any kind. It is sometimes called the primordial atom, but this is a poor descriptor. Time and space cannot be quantified prior to one "Planck time," or 5 x 10^-44 s, after the Big Bang, which is when the fundamental forces became distinct from one another, and is the smallest unit of time that can be quantified.

Answer 2

There is no scientific answer to any question about anything that happened prior to one nanosecond after the Big Bang. So the bang itself, and everything before, is a matter of speculation.

One speculation is that if you have empty, inflating space plus some empty, zero-energy particle fields, that eventually, after a really long time, you'll get a quantum fluctuation that is a Big Bang. The interesting thing is that our Universe may be evolving toward such a state.

Answer 3

No. Time , Space do not exist before the Big Bang.

Singularity is at the moment of Creation.

Before Creation there was the Void. (nothingness)

If you could come up with a mathematical defination of the Void ,, you go into history alongside Newton , Einstein , Prigogine , Thrombley , Hawkings , Tesla , Darwin , Bohr , Fritzgerald , Michealson-Morley.


,, Big Bang is similar to pair creation / pair production ,, where you pull apart the Void and create a matter / anti-matter imbalance.
,, if you brought all Universal matter together , we return to the Void and nothingness ,, via mutual anhilation and that because that the photon is pair matched.
,, if you cannot stop an expanding Universe , we get "heat death"(Prigogrine) , because there is a maximum to entropy(Hawkings). Entropy is not infinite.

Answer 4

The Big Bang is just a theory.

You can bet your life it will change, they always do !

Remember, not everything can be expressed in words nor understood in words, which our brains use to process thought. Imagination can go beyond words to deeper thought but you cant describe it to anyone. Thats why Jesus and people who have visions describe Heaven in parables and stories etc. They are the closest words we have to describe things that we cant see enough of to describe effectively.
To tell someone what something is like which they dont know you have to use descriptive elements that they know which are the closest they can understand to the thing you are explaining.
You will know this anyway.
Do some meditating and try to think what it was like before the theorized Big Bang ! ! You might just discover a better theory !

Answer 5

Time is a man made perspective to put order to events its like maths not a thing but a tool we have invented.

But you ask the unanswerable what was there before the big bang. Some clever fellows think it was just energy

Answer 6

You know, the eventuallities that happened "before" the big bang are outside our conception o time-space, and therefore are not relevant for science. I do not want the use the word before because that is a temporal concept. There is no time before time as we know, whatever there is, is not relevant for us because our universe is governed by the rules of space-time.

I recommend you to read "Brief history of time"

Answer 7

Nothing was around before the Big Bang. Everything was black.

Answer 8

If space didn't exist before the big bang, then how did the singularity exist? It needs 'space' to be in.

If there wasen't space what was there? Nothingness? This nothingness was just the black space we see today, except there was no matter in it.

Answer 9

nope the space is empty befor the big bang. That is 20 billion years ago. vey long time!

Answer 10

the common concept is there become no longer something - finished nothingness. After a super expanse of time, the little understand that become in this no longer something merged mutually into an extremely small and warm ball. After this little ball mixed with further and added remember, it overwhelmed itself with its very own weight, then expanded in the present day - so in the present day that it exploded, springing up - and nevertheless springing up - our countless universe. Answering your question, there become certainly "area." area is definitely basically a term to describe the outer worldwide. Thats the place "outer area" got here from.