2006-12-23 03:41:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually it doesn't require an act of God or a wave of a magic wand. Consider the fact that matter (E=mc^2) has positive energy and gravity has negative energy, they may have just cancelled out after a quantum variation started the whole thing. Everything around us may be a free lunch.
2006-12-23 04:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question. It could have been mass.
Recently, a university (I can't remember which) used a particle accelerator and was able to find out a subatomic particle, smaller than quarks. They imagine these high energy particles existed in massive amounts in the big bang.
The origin was a gravitational singularity; it was very hot, very dense with higher energies than our accelerator's can now reach. The energy of the big band cooled into elementary particles.
Remember E=mc^2? This means energy and mass are related. It is theorized the growing universe is the result of more energy becoming matter. If so that means the Big Bang was almost homogeneously energy that is becoming matter. The universe will stop expanding when it reaches the point of no more energy to convert into matter.
2006-12-23 12:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by justin_at_shr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't believe in the Big Bang theory. I'm sorry, but I don't understand it.
Scientists believe that the universe emerged from a tremendosly dense and hot state, about 13.7 billion years ago. This theory is based on the observations indicatiing the expansion of space. These observations show that the universe has expanded from a state in which all matter and ENERGY in the universe was at an immense temperature and density.
Everything has energy. Whether it be kinetic, potential, thermal, electrical or nuclear or some other form, EVERYTHING has energy. This is why I think this theory is so lame, because you can't just have this little ball of pulsing energy in the time before there was even time, so there was nothing, then it begins expanding and *poof* it explodes and you have our universe! So I guess you could say that the energy came from the brain of the scientist who came up with this wacko theory.
2006-12-23 12:14:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The M-theoy seems to have an answer... it says that two cosmic "membranes" colliding could generate the amount of energy needed to start a big bang. Of course, that's just a hypothesis (although I'm very convinced by it) and there is no way of testing it so far...
2006-12-24 00:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by rb_1989226 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a question that science has no answer for YET. We know what happened as far back as 3 seconds AFTER the Big Bang, but not before. And just because we don't know what happened, doesn't mean therefore it never happened. Humans are so arrogant when they think that if science has no answer for something, then it can't be true. And in science, it's perfectly alright to say "we don't know yet."
2006-12-23 12:47:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It did not have to come from anywhere . you know that that the space is very cold and cold contrcts .matter beig indestructible ns being always present , in some form or othere , it got condensed in the extreme coldness of spce . so the volume got reduced to a very great extend thus creating a vwery intense infinite density. the increase in the density creates friction among the molecules and atoms to a very great extend that it caused an increase in the temperature of the mass internally which was so great that itset off a nucler reaction that caused an explosion. The power to set off n explosion came from the increse in the friction of the molecules and atoms of the smater that increased in infinite density becuse of its condensation due to the cold conditons that existed in the space .
2006-12-23 12:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question makes obvious that the big bang theory is non-sense unless you believe in God. But where does God comes from? It is a mystery. I agree that the origin of the Universe is still not explained at all. It is a mystery.
2006-12-23 11:51:35 · answer #7 · answered by Joseph Binette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Hence it means that it was always there in a miniscule particle... which many called the point singularity... however in a potential state.
However, no one is sure, it existed in which form!
2006-12-23 12:10:31 · answer #8 · answered by apollo 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before time zero,nothing existed except a potential for a universe!
2006-12-23 17:28:10 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call it what you want. But whatever it is, it exists, and is beyond our present capcity to fully understand it.
2006-12-23 13:40:19 · answer #10 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋