what went 'bang' in the 'big bang' and how did it get there?

Question

ie-what went before it?

Answer 1

its the scientists bible
In the beginning there was nothing
then nothing exploded and in a blinding flash of nothingness there was everything
now when nothing explodes there is still everything
but when everything explodes there will be nothing

Answer 2

Firstly, remember that big bang is still just a theory - in actuality no one really knows.

But, supposing it is correct, then about 13 and a half billion years ago everything we have in the universe was compacted down into an infinitely dense, infinitely small "thing" called a singularity. A singularity is a place or area where all rules of physics breakdown, and they, incidentally, exist at the heart of blackholes.

Anyway, this singularity went boom for reasons completely unknown - expanded at a massive and catastrophic rate and began to create our universe.

It is exceptionally hard to envisage this singularity, so I wouldn't recommend trying. Very strangely, it existed before space was created so it therefore had no dimensions or any place to "be". Also, time was only born after the bang, so before that the singularity had no timeline - ie: hadn't existed for any length of time, had no history, past or future.

The where, how, what and why is anyone's guess at the moment. It may be that this universe is continually expanding and deflating over and over, or maybe we were created by beings in a parallel universe. Anything is possible.

Answer 3

The Universe started as a point particle with all the matter in the universe condensed into it. That particle expanded and formed the universe we know today. This is the basis of the Big Bang Theory.

Contrary to the opinions of Reigious nuts, no one said it came from nothing. We only admit the limit of our knowlege in that we don't know if this is a correct theory and we don't know what came before it, we do have some ideas, though. There's a big difference between saying that and 'Nothing came before it and it came out of nowhere.' If we don't know everything right now, they say it proves 'God did it', as if that's a good answer. Okay, great God did it. HOW did God do it, is what we're trying to figure out. God gave us our curioity, intellect and the intense need to understand the Universe around us. I don't think he intended us to forgo their use, to paraphrase Galileo. Stupidity reigns.

There are a few theorys on where this process started.

The Superstring Membrane theory says that the Universe and any other Universes are contained within the membranes of Superstrings. When these Membranes bump into eachother, matter is spontaniously created and the Universe as we know it begins.

Still other theorys state the Universe is the result of a previous Universe consisting of 10 or 11 Dimentions. For whatever reason, this Universe was unstable and fractured. The four dimentions we're used to expanding to create the universe that we know and love and the other six or seven colapsing down eternaly. This may explain the 'Missing Matter' problem.

Still another possibility, one a lot of people are going to have a hard time comprehending, is that the Universes expansion will slow, stop and colapse back down unto the origional point particle and the process will start all over again. Under the pressures of this intense contraction of Space and time, it's entirely possible that this process has NO beginning and is simply a mobious.

There are a lot of other ideas about where it came from and where we're going. I'll leave it to you to research further if you want to know more.

It's also entirely possible that any one of these processes and the processes that caused them are all God's own design. God might have even invented Evolution.

I think it's pretty dense and expresses a fairly low opinion of God's intelligence to say that's not possible.

If God isn't at least as smart as I am, I'm pretty freakin disapointed.

Please don't tell me about 'The Scientists Bible' when you obviously don't know the first thing about Science.

Answer 4

The big bang was an explosion OF SPACE not an explosion IN space. We only have the circumstantial evidence, namely:

1. First, and most obvious, the universe is expanding, as observed by the so-called 'red-shift' light when looking at distant galaxies, a product of the doppler effect.

2. the theory predicts that 25 percent of the total mass of the universe should be the helium that formed during the first few minutes, an amount that agrees with observations.

3. Finally, and most convincing, is the presence of the cosmic background radiation. The big-bang theory predicted this remnant radiation, which now glows at a temperature just 3 degrees above absolute zero, well before radio astronomers chanced upon it.

We're 10-15 billion years away from the beginning of known existence.....from the singular event known as the horrendous kablooie......

Astronomers are still pondering dark matter, dark energy and the flatness of space-time, as well as your question of what came BEFORE that singularity. Will there be a big crunch or will the galaxies continue to expand? In trillions upon trillions of years, the sky will be filled only by the Milky Way stars, all the galaxies will be too far away or consumed by black holes/darkness....a vast cold, dark and lonely place.

Answer 5

Its a really long explanation, but everyting in the unverse was smashed into a tiny ball that was infinitly small, and when it got to unbearably small, it exploded, or rather expanded rapidly to make it look like an explosion. The thing is that the Big Bang is just a theory, so know one knows if it is actually true. It is possible that the small ball of matter got there because the "previous universe" was contracting (getting smaller) until it got to that little ball of matter. It may help if you check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang.

Answer 6

This guy man is making me ill. He has over 12,000 points since December 12 by answering almost every question the same way with the same link. Of course he is a bot, but it still annoys me because it interupts the flow of questions and answers. I have already reported him/it, but had to say it.

Now, to this question. . .

The Big Bang occur when a singularity (like a black hole, but much more massive) exploded and released an enormous amount of energy.

All laws and theorys breakdown at this point and there is no way of knowing what it was like before, or how the singularity got there.

Answer 7

The entire universe, both time and space, came into existence with a bang, and we haven't the slightest idea how it got there. Nothing went before it because it was the beginning of time as well as of space.

Answer 8

A space-time pulse came into existence then accelerated to the speed of light.
This expansion took place in just over one-thirty billionth of a second,and attained a diameter of about 1cm.
Before that nothing existed!

Answer 9

well, if you beleive in God, then you know what went bang!

otherwise, it was supoosed to be based on the evolvement of hydrogen atoms that went from 2 to an infinate amount. Just like anything else that is compressed, it exploded, cooled and formed into what we call the universe.

ps- then emporer palpatine came and ruined everything!

Answer 10

nothing that a lil wiki cant help in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

has most of the theories on it...

pretty comprehensive

as for other wise.... its more or less like a yo yo

i mean the universe..... its said its big bang and then a big crunch and bang ..... lol now that sounds naught even haha

i mean it expands and then comes in together for a crunch.... and ..since such a lot of matter gets compressed its becomes unstable and bursts out again as big bang..... and after it gets stretched to extreme its gets pulled right back in....

back n forth.. back n forth

hahah there i go again