without all the religous crap, how was the universe actually created?

Question

i always thought it had somthing to do with matter and antimatter, a few years ago ppl said antimatter didnt exist but everything in the universe has an opposite (absoutly everthing) . has it somthing to do with this?

i was always lead to belive it was to do with matter and antimatter, and now antimatter has been created it make more and more sense

Answer 1

Have a read at Steven Hawkings "A Brief History of Time" There is an on-line version somewhere so you don't have to buy it. It is a long book but is a good effort at explaining very complex mathematics in lay persons terms. I'm no genius and even I managed to grasp the majority of it.

It runs through the history of mathematics and physics, big bang theory (singularity), dark matter, black holes, the lot. Just don't let your friends find out. They'll think you're a dweeb!

Answer 2

There are a number of possibilities being explored, mostly due to String Theory. The Big Bang Theory is the most popular scientific theory, which was the universe exploded from a super condensed point; but this begs the question of where did that point exist, if the universe itself didn't.

There is more information about the Big Bang at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Universe

String Theory provides many more possible "beginnings".

"Inside a black hole, space and time swap roles. The center of the black hole is not a point in space but an instant in time. As the infalling matter approached the center, it reached higher and higher densities. But when the density, temperature and curvature reached the maximum values allowed by string theory, these quantities bounced and started decreasing. The moment of that reversal is what we call a big bang. The interior of one of those black holes became our universe." (2)

Or, the Ekpyrotic scenarios:
"Two [membranes, that exist in a higher dimensional space than our own universe,] might hit, bounce off each other, move apart, pull each other together, hit again, and so on. In between collisions, the branes behave like Silly Putty, expanding as they recede and contracting somewhat as they come back together. During the turnaround, the expansion rate accelerates; indeed, the present accelerating expansion of the universe may augur another collision."(2)


The universe may not have been created, it may have always existed, in various states. For now, we have theories that point both ways. There are, so far, no definitive answers.

Answer 3

I'm a christian, but i also believe in the big bang. The big bang is the beginning of space and time. The universe came about from an enormous dense and extremley hot state. Think of it as a massive cosmic explosion where all matter was created and got hurled of into space at an unbelievable speed. Theuniverse has been expanding ever since. I refuse to believe that when we look at the beauty of the universe theres no way that it could have just happened by chance. If you read genesis ch 1 in the bible there is a lot of science that can support it. yes i to beleive that the universe is more than just a coup[le thousand years old as a lot of young earth christian believe. I believe it is around 13.7 billion years old

There a even verses in the bible that supports an expanding universe. Isaiah 40:22 "God streaches the heaven out as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in"

Sorry if you didnt want to hear about all that christian stuff but i dont think you can talk about the creation of the universe without talking about its creator.

Answer 4

Nobody can answer that question with any certainty.

Best theory at the moment is that about 13 and a half billion years ago, an infinitely dense, infinitely small "thing" known as a singularity went whoosh - aka the big bang - and started the process of creating the universe as we know it.

But, the odd thing is that it is very hard to envisage this singularity - it existed outside of space-time. Therefore, it had not existed for any length of time and did not occupy any space.

Thinking about that for too long will turn your brains to spaghetti!

Answer 5

This Universe was created exactly the same way all the other universes were created...

A sufficently Massive Star lost the battle with Gravity.
It's mass fell in on itself until the the surface of the star wa no longer beyond the distance where the escape Velocity was less than the speed of light.
With this, the curvature of space and time became infinite and a seperate expansion of inwardly curving space exploded with each particle falling inward upon itself and the inverted spacecurvature continues to expand as the matter continues to fall in on itself and away from all the other matter in the Singularity.

From the Outside our Universe is a Black-Hole in another Universe, but from the inside we appear to be an infinately large universe which continues to expand as all the matter continues to fall away from each other and inward upon itself...

And so we exist as miniscule specs in an infinate Universe which is contained in a single infinately small point of gravity in a Universe which is infinately large which is contained in a single infinately small point of gravity in a third universe which is infinately large and is contained... to infinity...

It's a simple enough thing... But try explaining it to someone who doens't speak your language... It's easier to just say, "and God said 'Let there be ligh' and there was..."

Answer 6

The trouble with the big bang theory is that for something to happen it must have an arena in which for it to occur so there must have been something there before the big bang. It bends the minds of us mere humans but I prefer the theory that even though a big band did occur the universe has always been here. Infinite in time and space. Perhaps part of multiple universes that make up one entire infinite whole. Whatever the answer our brains are limited so we will never know. We have one piece of the jigsaw but will always be missing the puzzle. Thats just how life is for our species!

Answer 7

THE BIG BANG is the prevalent theory in celestial physics. Here is the first paragraph from WIKIPEDIA's text on the Big Bang.

"In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from a tremendously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago. The theory is based on the observations indicating the expansion of space (in accord with the Robertson-Walker model of general relativity) as indicated by the Hubble redshift of distant galaxies taken together with the cosmological principle."

Answer 8

This is how the universe was created. "God" and his roommate were playing cards one evening. His roommate farted and "God" said I can do better. With that said, "God" bent over, held a lighter close to his ***, and let out one hell of a fireball otherwise known as the Big Bang.
But really, the universe was created when massive amounts of energy came into a single point and violently exploded. Sending all of this over billions of years (13 - 15 billion years in fact) to what is currently the universe.

Answer 9

Try this website.
www.superstringtheory.com

It talks about the latest theories about the big bang, specifically how the interaction of two other universes may have triggered our own. It makes sense - at a quantum level of thought.

Answer 10

Space used to be void of all matter except for pure energy. Eventually this energy got dense enough to create matter and an explosion happened to spread it all out.

It seems the matter hasen't stopped spreading out yet cos galaxies are moving away from us.