How did the universe begin?
-If you say the big bang, then answer the next 2-
What caused the explosion or expansion of the universe?
Where did the particle or dense matter before the explosion or expansion come from?
2006-12-20 09:03:00 · 12 answers · asked by A follower of Christ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Who said the universe "began"?
Maybe it always was.
In man's small little mind it is hard for us to conceive millions, billions, or "eternal" years.
God is. God was, God always will be.
Same thing goes for the universe. Is, was, will be.
You want a big bang? Ask God to clap hands!
2006-12-20 09:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by Daystar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We think it may have been the Big Bang.
> What caused the explosion or expansion of the universe?
We don't know why the pre-Bang state wasn't stable.
> Where did the particle or dense matter before the explosion or expansion come from?
We don't know. Space and Time as we know them now weren't the same then.
2006-12-20 09:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bang Theory is the most popular answer in Cosmology. As to its cause, well, Astronomy is just barely reaching to the limits of the time of the Big Bang, and so that question cannot be answered. A commonly accepted explanation is that matter is "frozen energy", as explained by Einstein's E=MC^2. Energy doesn't take up any space, thus energy may be creating new matter, which in turn is causing the expansion of the universe. Like anything else in science, it's just a theory.
2006-12-20 09:48:01 · answer #3 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Big bang
2) Find and read a book by Allen Guth - it began as a quantum fluctuation and then an expansion field took over..
3) The particles came from the initial radiation in the early universe. There were no particles before the early expansion. Gravity is negative energy; matter is positive energy. They can add to zero. The universe is probably a free lunch.
2006-12-20 09:21:13 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. if this theory is correct then what caused this explosion was just a knot of curved space that unkinked itself. there was no matter as i know this term that was present at the time. Just some kind of pure gravitational field with an enormous density of energy and curvature
2. someone had to make the matter... probably some great powerfull entitity... somepeople call this being as god...
i assume you have some kind of bias here... or you are extremly curious. come on now, scientists dont just say things without something to back it up, science is all logic and is correct most of the time.
you also have to remember that the big bang theory is just a theory, it hasnt been proven right or wrong. and that of god making all creatures can also be conciderd a theory since there are no records of that time.
2006-12-20 09:13:04 · answer #5 · answered by ryanisalifestyle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are only three-dimensional beings, so we don't master Time, we are subject to it.
Not so for God, as he is eternal, and so his creation, the universe.
Thinking that God was missing something and decided to create the universe does not make sense to me. Then the creation and existence of the universe must be intrinsic to the nature of God since ever and forever.
This is why matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, they have always existed and they can only be transformed.
In the universe everything is evolving, changing, transforming and will go on like that forever.
What for? I can't answer that and maybe the question doesn't make any sense.
"What for" basically has to do with our limited experience of sequential events leading to the satisfaction of our needs, including the need to explain everything.
About the Big Bang, we simply don't have the means to know how was it before. We can only measure this expansive phase of the creation. For the precedent phase we can only guess.
2006-12-20 09:46:24 · answer #6 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My personal point of view is this.
1.- The big bang.
2.- I think it was a black hole, it was so compact, that it was impossible to maintain its particles in one unit, so the big bang happened.
3.- Those particles came from other previous Universe, fagoted by the black hole.
2006-12-20 09:11:26 · answer #7 · answered by jaime r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big band is a complicated issue
I think there are many theories, i don't particularly believe in one
but in accordance to the big bang
they say it was an atom that managed to condense space and time within itself...where it came from, well...that's a pretty good question
2006-12-20 09:13:23 · answer #8 · answered by Pops 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody is really sure.
Where did your god come from, and where did it get the materials to "prove" you are right?
Do you have the courage to say "I don't know" as well, or will you just point to your book?
2006-12-20 09:05:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be perfectly honest, unless you believe in God and his miracle creation, then we will never really ever know how the world was made.
2006-12-20 09:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋