Is it true that one thing existed before Big Bang - the 'potential' for a Universe?

Question

Scientist can only go back to micros-seconds after the Big Bang with Quantum Theory and they mostly agree that there was nothing before the Big Bang. So even if all the energy was compressed to zero, there must have been some potential awaiting a 'trigger' of some kind. It did happen didn't it???

Answer 1

Nothing existed before time zero,but an event,that produced our universe and us happened about 10 to the power of minus ninety-five of a second after zero.
Before that ,though we must agree that nothing existed there must have been a potential.
The potential,odd as it may seem ,had to be finite or it could never have triggered the events that we experience to-day.
The answer may seem somewhat nebulous but maybe you can get something out of it.
It is fairly uncertain ground to tred on!

Answer 2

There are lots of speculations about what went on before the Big Bang, but I can assure you there are no agreed-upon scientific answers at this point. There is one hypothesis called the "continuous eternal" Big Bang, in which "our" Universe is a tiny part of an ongoing phase change from a higher energy vacuum to a vacuum like that found in our Universe, and the process itself is eternal. This hypothesis has some observational consequences, because this paradigm can be used to predict values of things that haven't been measured yet (like the mass of the Axion), based on the statistics of an infinite number of Big Bangs. If those predictions are right, it would lend some weight to that theory about the origin of the Big Bang. So there are ways to approach this problem.

We'll have a better idea about this once there is unification between gravity and the other forces of nature. You need to learn to be happy with uncertainty about things that are unknown.

Answer 3

perhaps this is just what the universe does, it keeps contracting and expanding......Perhaps there are other universes outside our own, and ones which run parallel in between.

We will never know, it is the greatest mystery of life, the one true origin of it all...

I believe the universe creates life anywhere it can and the 'stuff' which implants life on planets is contained in dark matter.....

I'd love to see it proven, but it never will be,

just like it will never be proven what came "before" everything.

Answer 4

I think anything is a guess. No one will ever know for sure.

Answer 5

all the evidence was destroyed in the blast