How large was the mass before the Big Bang ?

Question

What was its composition and how much force was required to propel the exploded parts into space?

Answer 1

Ignore that troll joking about the Bible.

There is no real answer to your question. This is essentially the biggest question theoretical physicists have worked on for the last century. Do a search on cosmology and you'll see all the myriad ways that people have approached this question.

Answer 2

Nothing is known about the universe at Planck time=0. At Planck time=1, which is the closest theoretical physics can get us to the beginning of time, it is theoretically stated that gravity began to separate from the other fundamental forces.

"Something is simpler than something else, in terms of spatial size, if it is smaller. The spatially smallest possible thing is something with zero spatial dimensions, a point. The big bang singularity is a point.

Something is simpler than something else, in terms of its material constitution, if (all else being equal) it contains less matter. The big bang singularity is a mass point; that is, it contains a zero amount of matter."

Therefore, a direct answer to your question is that there is no composition (matter) before the big bang, and nothing is known about the mass before the big bang. Remember, nothing was known about the universe before the big bang. The force required to propel the exploded parts into space is unknown; time began when a photon of light (which is massless) began moving, and what triggered the singularity to explode is unknown... since all the fundamental forces were contained in the singularity, there's no way to know what the laws of physics were really like inside the singularity, because the laws of physics as we know it may have been different then.

There is a lot of controversy over the singularity. The website at Universal Theory states: "The confusion began when we refer to singularity as an ultra dense mass. Mass is a property of space-time universe. According to John Earman, mass cannot exist in singularity. Big bang theory implies that the common particles including, neutrinos, electrons and quarks appeared after the universe started."

To further clarify, during the singularity, there was no space-time yet. All the forces were broken down somehow. Therefore there couldn't have been mass during the singularity or before the big bang. Remember, all of this is based on theories and that doesn't mean everything is necessarily going to be true. No one really knows, not even Einstein.

Answer 3

I'm don't put much credence in the "Big Bang" theory, but I believe the current thinking among the "mud-to-man" faithful is that there was literally nothing. There was no "mass" before the big bang. The "Big Bang" occurred due to an intersecting of other dimensions and the resulting catastrophic interaction brought about three dimensional hydrogen which then (somehow) "evolved" into what we see around us over the span of "billions of years". (stellar evolution)

I find it extremely implausible.

Answer 4

The phrase "before the Big Bang" is meaningless, as time itself started with the Big Bang, just as space itself.

To quote Stephen Hawking:

"Asking what happened before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole."

(That was from memory, so I may not have the exact quote right.)

Answer 5

That is all very assumptive that the big bang actually happened. Have you ever heard of the Bible?