What was the source of energy for the big bang?

Question

Is it not the case that energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred from one form to another?

Answer 1

Stop confusing the scientist with facts. They only need to state a theory and make it sound good for it to be printed as true in the media.

Answer 2

1. It can't be God as 'it' doesn't exist IMHO

2. Yes it's true neither energy or matter cannot be created nor destroyed.

Therefore you must assume that, the energy came form the mass that the universe came from because there is nothing but the universe.

The mass that is assumed to be the start of the big bang could have been hydrogen (as hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.) so i could be thought that a fusion chain reaction could have occoured when atoms of hydrogen which would have been tightly packed together collided creating a massive thermonuclear explosion capable of destroying that mass and heating it so that it expanded.

For this to work the explosion and heat expansion must have been greater than the gravitional pull of all the matter in the universe. which is explained by
1. the power of a thermonuclear blast.
and 2. the amount of hydrogen that was involved.

So in a nutshell my theroy is that the engery source was the hydrogen contained in the lump of matter that was involved in the big bang creating a thermonuclear blast.

Answer 3

A great question which I am finding a difficult task to answer but here it goes:

The source of energy that generated the Big Bang were all the matters in the universe that must have been compressed into a very small space which then exploded creating the universe.

But where did all the matters come from?

Well.....uh.... I seem to be wasting your time with questions that are unanswerable.

Answer 4

one possibility is qunatum fluctuations. At the microscopic level space itself is descirbed as quantum foam, there are energy fluctuations. Although on average this energy is zero, over short enough periods of time it spikes, almost as if energy can be created, so long as it is "given back" or destroyed over a short period of time. This time is very small though, so on average it's as if nothing happened. But on a small enough scale all the matter and energy of the universe could have been affected by these fluctuations. And a momentary spike could create a chain reaction.

Now remember that matter is energy. Physics on some levels treats matter the same as energy, but in other ways energy such as light and heat can have affects and reactions on other matter. So a quantum energy spike that oculd be sufficient to convert a compressed matter to energy could start the reaction for the Big Bang but would not be considered to start it. As far as the laws of the universe are concerned, this spike was too short to matter and had no real affect, a straight conversion doesn't unbalance the universe and the energy of it is given back. But the presence of it then begins to cause the stored up energy in compressed matter to expand rapidly.

So in effect the big bang could be considered to spontaneous or having no cause. But if you are familair with quantum mechanics you can understand that as things get smaller more of the fundamental laws of physics break down, at least temporarily. Immediately prior to the Big Bang enough of the universe was small enough so that these effects could be applied.

Answer 5

The source of the energy for the big bang was a romantic evening for two followed by a bottle or two of good wine.

Answer 6

Outer gravity became so distant from the core gravity that it broke
away and caused a nuclear explosion caused by electrons (that do
enter a black hole) creating hydrogen which expanded 350.000
billion light years within seconds. This settled and started the whole
Universe with parts of black holes that did not enter into nuclear
fusion creating a great number of Galaxies stemming from these
smaller black holes, and thereon to solar systems. And it is still
expanding and now is at an estimated oval shaped Universe of
385 billion light years with uncountable stars with solar systems.

Answer 7

The truth is that no one knows the answer to this. It is the greatest mystery of all.

We have good theories for everything just after the moment of creation, but none (except some religious ones) for the moment itself.

I've heard it said that its a meaningless question. Its like asking, "What's one mile north of the North Pole?" It really doesn't have an answer.

Answer 8

It was its own source. You are correct in citing the first law of thermodynamics. Because energy can neither be created nor destroyed then it had to exist entirely in its self.

Answer 9

Einstein.... E=Mc2.

Energy= Mass x The speed of light squared

The collected mass of the entire universe had potential energy that exploded into kenetic energy.

Answer 10

sub atomic particles of anti matter swirling about faster and faster the size of a fraction of a pin head getting hotter and hotter until BANG :o)) That's how I understand it. Perhaps if anyone from Cerne knows exactly how the particles came to exist or how they work - they could write in and tell us!