Just darkness? or what?
2006-12-05 15:44:43 · 13 answers · asked by breadcrumbs 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, you have to have something for it to be dark, without anything, there wouldn't be the space in which to experience the lack of photons which make darkness.
I hope that makes sense.
See, the problem is that before the big bang, as near as we can tell, there wasn't even space. Meaning there wasn't just this vast empty space into which the Big Bang exploded to create everything. By the mere fact of its existence (proven existence by the way, we can see the remnants of the Big Bang, see them, hear them and detect them) the Big Bang CREATED the space into which creation expanded.
There was even an early period (called the Hyperinflationary phase) where the Universe expanded very VERY quickly by several orders of magnitude.
Science is still trying to explain these very early moments, but we are fairly certain that before there was the Big Bang, there was NOTHING; no space, no time, no darkness no light.
Call that God if you like, she's apparently the only one who knows what happened prior to the Big Bang.
2006-12-05 15:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by mytraver 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It came very close to happening, at least the no earth, no galaxy part. Shortly after the Big Bang, matter condensed out of the energy. At that time certain fundamental physical properties were set. Like how strong is gravity. If some of those had been a tiny bit different, no galaxies, no earth, no us.
The universe is finely tuned for our existence. The interesting question is why it was so tuned.
2006-12-05 18:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to try the philosophy section of Yahoo Answers for this one, but some speculate that there was just energy before the big bang, no light, no matter, just energy and darkness, and it WAS in one centralized location. hope that helps.
2006-12-05 16:22:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You basically answered your own question, there would be nothing.
I wish you religious nut cases would get out of the science section and go back the the religion section, or at least have the decency to keep your BELIEFS to yourselves when people are trying to ask sincere questions about science.
2006-12-05 16:21:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there would have been nothing then that answers your question. There could not be darkness for that is somthing, there would not be anything but absence of things.
2006-12-05 15:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by Timothy C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Damn !! This is the hardest question on earth. To be candid, i don't know where to start. What could have been before the big bang?
2006-12-05 16:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by Snoopy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's productive to speculate on that because if there was nothing, there would be nothing, and even darkness is something.
2006-12-05 15:52:33 · answer #7 · answered by No Shortage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing but maybe a potential.
2006-12-06 00:48:48 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too hard to answer..you questoin wouldnt even exist...the only answer is known by God...or ifyou buddhist well the Creator of the heavens and the univerese
2006-12-05 15:52:21 · answer #9 · answered by aman 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
something beyond human imagination
or
just nothing
2006-12-06 01:17:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋