How did empty space come into being?

Question

was there an empty space before it? or is the same empty space?

Answer 1

Newton stated that it was an empty space existing by itself and that material things occupied it as fornitures in a room. But the last theories from physics and cosmology are getting to the conclussion that such empty space does not exists. It seems that there is always activity in the vacuum, such the creation and annihilation of particles, according to the indetermination principle of quantum theory. And there is also a misterious kind of energy, the negative energy, responsible of the expansion of the universe.
Before the big-bang there was neither space nor time. Space and time were created along with the universe.
I aplogize for my bad english, I am not english speaker, but I hope I made me understood.

Answer 2

It is more a feasible theory for most of space that, rather than there being an event to vacuate parts of space, there was an event that distributed matter into some parts of space. Most of space is empty, or very close to being empty, so it is more interesting to ask how the bits of space that have matter in them came to be that way.

Whether one part of empty space is the same as it used to be depends how you identify it. If you identify it as, perhaps, being the bit of space half way between two stars it is likely that the stars will have moved over time so the space that is there now will not be the same space that was there a long time ago.

Answer 3

Before the Big Bang, spcae was not a we know it now. It was tiny, and there was nothing outside. A tough concept to imagine, because it is outside our realm of experience. In this tiny tiny 'area' there fluctuated many fields, which are sort of like the electromagnetic or gravitational fields we experience today. One of these fields, the inflaton field, when it fluctuated to a certain value, created negative pressure, which causes gravity to act as a repulsive rather than an attractive force. This force, which lasted only for the tiniest fraction of a second, pushed all the space in that tiny tiny area to an enormous enormous size which is where our known universe came from, and space.
Space itself is not thought to be empty, but to be full of a field known as the Higgs field which is what gives particles mass. There is also M-theory, which suggests that our concept of space is actually formed by the fact that our universe is in fact inside an enormous 'particle' called a brane, and that within this brane there are, besides the four known dimensions of space and time, there exist seven other, small and tightly curled dimensions that we are unable to detect because the light waves that we use for detection cannot travel within these other dimensions.
All of this is described in precise and logical detail through complex mathematics, as well as observations. Inflationary theory in particular has successfully matched up with may observations, particularly of the cosmic microwave background which has a uniform temperature across the sky, suggesting that the early universe was very close together.

Answer 4

the main appropriate order is... a million) Universe comes into existence (no person is responsive to why or how) 2) Inflation reasons exponential strengthen 3) huge bang happens (theory of the great Bang) 4) huge bang nucleosynthesis creates all of the debris interior the Universe which exchange into Protons, Neutrons etc 5) not plenty happens for ~ 380,000 years 6) Universe will become sparkling simply by electrons combining with protons to form the 1st atoms 7) Justin Beiber will become properly-liked

Answer 5

You Q? is alot like the big bang.

Big Bang fly in the face of science and the laws and principals of thermodynamics. Lets be logical people.

In the First Law of Thermodynamics: matter cannot be created or destroyed. In the beginning to the Big Bang, there is nothing present to explode, and zero energy to explode it. There are zero observations, or documented test results for spontaneous generation, let alone matter from nothing.

Expecting to have matter, and energy just show up, when none is present is like taking an absolutely empty box, and after billions of years, or any other amount of time, expect to open that box, and inside have a operational world in all its complexity. Spontaneous generation something out of nothing, used to support the Big Bang is in direct conflict with the first scientific Law of Thermodynamics.

Answer 6

It didn't come into existence. That's why it's called "empty space."

Answer 7

Since there are objects there is space between them.
The 'empty' space is full with radiation, creation and annihilation.

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Answer 8

and how do we know it is empty? Could there not be lifeforms that we can't comprehend that live in the vacuum of space?

Answer 9

We do not know.
Unlike religion, science cannot answer some questions with existing tools & analysis methods