What existed in space before the "big bang"?

Answer 1

nothing, just a huge amount of potential that seems to have been wasted!

Answer 2

There was no "space" before the big bang. Space (and time) is a consequence of the big bang. It is NOT as though all the "stuff" in the universe was condensed into a single point, and that point was somehow located in an utterly empty universe. That single point WAS the entire universe, including what would become space.

This is a very difficult thing to get our heads around as biological beings who exist only in space and time. The point-universe of time=zero existed in nothingness, not even space.

Answer 3

I do not accept the concept of the 'big bang' because it presupposes that time did not exist prior to it, if time did not exist, then there was no change, whatever was had always been.
If there was no change, then there was no possibility of the big bang happening, because that would require a change leading up to it.

At the time of the alleged 'Big Bang' there was infinite space, and infinite time had occurred, the space was filled with matter, and if life is possible it must occur within infinity, there was life of infinite types within the space, there probably still is.

So to answer according to my believes, the big bang happened, much as similar big bangs have happened an infinite number of times before, in a space matter universe where there was little matter evident until the big bang had occurred.

Answer 4

I'm afraid the question has little meaning - time is part of the fabric of our universe thanks to an Austrian chap named Albert - with 4 interconnected dimensions of spacetime. If there was no space or time before the big bang it doesnt really make sense to ask what was there before it. The big bang didnt explode IN TO anything. It sounds a little odd but there is plenty of research to back it up - it has been summarised humorously as 'in the beginning there was nothing - which exploded' our universe may be a vacuum fluctuation which is something from quantum mechanics and basically means all the energy in our universe can come from nowhere - as long as the energy is returned. This doesnt seem likely to happen though as the universe is not contracting on itself, it appear to be speeding up. In a few hundred billion years there will be nothing in this universe except dust floating through a vast void.

If you're interested in such questions there are very many books. Stephen Hawking's brief history of time is one and the Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene is another.

Answer 5

As most people are always batting on about parallel universes and even black holes, Well Black holes for instance could just be pocket holes left open after the big bang. The parallel universe within could well be our direct Mother Universe who gave birth due to over expansion. This lead to immence heat generating gases tearing through what we call Dark Matter, expanding outwards over billions of years forming our own space time and universe.

There may possibly be many more Birth Dimensions out there.

Answer 6

there's no scientific answer to any question approximately something that got here approximately previous to a minimum of one nanosecond after the super Bang. So the bang itself, and each little thing formerly, is an argument of hypothesis. One hypothesis is that in case you have empty, inflating area plus some empty, 0-skill particle fields, that finally, after a very long term, you will get a quantum fluctuation that's a super Bang. The exciting element is that our Universe would be evolving in the direction of this way of state.

Answer 7

According to "big bang" theory, there was no space before the big bang. The "bang" itself created space and time.

Answer 8

Without the "Big Bang", there was no space to begin with... there was a whole lot of nothing!

Answer 9

I saw a documentary about your question, i don't remember fully (sorry), but i do remember that scientist believe that before the big bang, the universe was full of what is called "dark-matter"; now, what is outside that universe, that scientist can only guess

Answer 10

There was no space. Time and space as we know it began with the big bang. Something beyond our comprehension perhaps.

Answer 11

as time did not exist before the big bang...nothing did....something can only be somewhere at sometime...if there if no time...then the other two aspect of reality are irrelevant (the thing and the where in this case) Have I lost you yet?.....ooo look another question...........