Imagining the big bang(theory)?

Question

Imagine a drop of water as in the link is a black hole.
http://focus.aps.org/story/v4/st9

As the black hole seperates from the universe the drop instantly blows up or 'splashes' into the 4th dimension in the same way a drop hits a surface on earth. But instead of the outside of the drop hitting the surface the hit originates in the very center of the drop which blows it up.

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/photofile-b/splash_4761web.jpg
Look at that splash. The mirrored image helps but in the big bang imagine that splash isn't just the top and bottom but rather all the way around it. The splash originates in the very center rather than the outside.

it makes sense in terms of physics and geometry.

Prove me wrong!

Answer 1

You are imagining a projection of an n-dimensional event on 3-space. Moreover, these projections are in Euclidean space and call upon our basic Newtonian biases in interpreting visual phenomena. As such your visualizations are, a priori, defective, inadequate and *extremely* overly simplistic. They makes sense in terms of physics and geometry in a similar fashion to the way "Barney" makes sense of all of Shakespeare.

Answer 2

I would just like to know what existed before the so-called "big bang" supposedly happened ? I mean, how can something be created somewhere in space at a certain time from nothing ? Personally, I cannot accept the big bang theory for this very reason as it cannot explain what existed before the event, so until someone comes up with another viable theory, I will support the "Steady State Theory". At least this theory explains what existed before the big bang, because it does not have to have a "beginning" or an "end" !

Answer 3

The main problem seems to be if there are anything which can be imagined to have 4 dimensions before Big Bang at all. If there were, what could it be? If not (which seems very obvious to me), all geometrical dimensions and time shall be formed in the Big Bang itself. Everything therefore shall be born everywhere at the very same time? Black holes already have some kind of environment and time and they cannot therefore be compared with Big Bang?

I have no higher education in astronomy but I cannot imagine anything else than this.