Hmm, what do you reckin was arounf before our univrsal existance?
2006-11-18 03:43:15 · 26 answers · asked by mrben 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Your thinking about reality, reality is an enormously complex subject with no beginning and no end. Reality is attached to mind logic and time has no place with any theory of reality. 15bn years ago has no meaning in reality because that is space time. Space time was thought out by man to give meaning to idea's that started in man's head and used to try to make sense of creation.
Do we die, we know our body dies because we can prove it, but the energy that fuels the brain and actual brain activity is a different matter. The fact is: we are evolving, our minds are moving forward trying to explain what I am mentioning to you. One day we will have the answers and find that the speed of light is pretty slow, in the meantime, until the human brain is ready, we will not be able to accept moving about the universe without form or substance. Only when we die will we ever know the truth about reality and even then it will be limited until we have run the full length of the evolutionary scale.
ATB Redmonk
2006-11-18 06:20:15 · answer #1 · answered by Redmonk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by the "Universe". We can only see a very finite distance away. Assuming "what we can see" is everything is an old one and has been consistently been proven wrong once we can see further.
Likely, "big bangs" simply happen now and again, here and there, when enough matter happens to gather in one spot due to gravity and it has always gone on.
Your very body is made of materials cooked-up in the largest stars when they exploded, seeding the galaxy with the materials that (here and now) make-up you. It seems natural to assume this works on the grander scale as well.
2006-11-18 04:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of standard possibilities to answer this one. The first is that there was no '16 billion years ago'. This happens because time is part of the universe and is affected by gravity, mass, energy, etc. because of the huge densities just after the big bang, it is quite possible that time simply doesn't extend past the 'beginning'. It is sort of like asking what is north of the north pole.
The second possibility is that htere was a 'different universe' that was undergoing a 'big crunch'.
2006-11-18 04:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by mathematician 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since time, space and matter are related, if our universe was, pre-15 billion years ago, a singular, infinitely dense point of matter, then time itself didn't exist.
It's a weird concept, to be sure, but there was no time before our universe came into being.
More to the point, there is no "16 billion years ago" for our universe.
Just like time ends for you when you get shredded up in a black hole.
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2006-11-18 04:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One billion years before our Universe exploded into existance there was merely an infinite emptiness with nothing in it except for energy waves. When a ripple occurred in this energy wave the "Big Bang" occurred and thus our Universe exploded into existance.
2006-11-18 05:46:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, according to my own theory, I would call the Universe not that, but a Gigaverse, because I believe there are many.
So, to answer your question I believe that their were millions of others, each containing millions of different species. So 16 billion years ago there was another gigaverse, dieing of Entropy, and eventually dieing, forming the dust, not like our dust, but like god dust, forming a sphere and trapping some inside o form planets, stars, asteroids, living creatures and so forth.
2006-11-18 04:01:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same sorts of things that are happening now on earth 1000 miles north of the North Pole.
2006-11-18 11:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the ingredients of the big-bang. But then who put them all together and why did they react in such a way as to form a universe?.
2006-11-18 04:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ask myself questions like this sometimes and they just make me so confused!!! For example, how can the universe be never ending? But then, if it is, where does it stop? And where it stops, what is it in? etc etc ... I guess we'll never know, which really bugs me! Hope you can find an answer from somewhere, sorry mine's not too good!
2006-11-18 03:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by Vicky yeah! 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was only "Time", waiting for something to happen...all confused: no logical ideas how the "all" should be, some glimpses of something. Just a chaos, waiting for some order...
2006-11-18 08:00:03 · answer #10 · answered by silberstein_9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋