This is a feeder Q.Could it be that what preceded was not a chemical event that caused the almighty explosion? Gregory Bateson suggests that thought came before an energy explosion.Was there something like a primordial energy that gave birth to elementary matter and fundamental particles from which arose what we now term as the Universe? And is it also possible that we hold it within us the secret of understanding the nature of the elemental advent? Thoughtful answers only. Thanks.
2007-01-31 04:48:49 · 16 answers · asked by polymath 1 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Someone lit the blue touchpaper and retired to a safe place?
2007-01-31 04:53:52 · answer #1 · answered by Greybeard 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm going to reiterate the last answer--it appears that there was no before. Both time and space seem to collapse to a singularity at time zero. Now we do not really know for a fact that the universe came from a point. Cosmological evidence and particle physics experiments only let us peer back to a small fraction of a second after the apparent time zero. It's very tough to extrapolate back and make any kind of a meaningful statement about what came before that.
There are a lot of theories (some of which you can read in the answers above). Some of these theories have some merit. Most do not. In any case, none makes any measurable predictions that allow us to gauge its validity.
2007-01-31 05:53:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think time and SIZE. If the universe was born from an explosion then we need to know the size of the original mass. Could it have been a cannon ball in another world, which, when it exploded, created millions of other universes. We would then realise that we are so tiny and unimportant that it really does'nt matter. Relate it to Bondi beach in Australia. Pick up one grain of sand and realise that there are more stars in our (one?) universe than on that beach. Think of an exploding display rocket and see a similar event happening with our universe....except it happened in seconds. Its best just to think about how we're going to pay the bills...and reproduce... to keep all these thoughts going!.
2007-01-31 05:13:46 · answer #3 · answered by JohnH(UK) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prior to the Big Bang, there may have been a contracting universe with space-time geometry that otherwise is similar to that of our current expanding universe. As gravitational forces pulled this previous universe inward, it reached a point at which the quantum properties of space-time cause gravity to become repulsive, rather than attractive. Just a thought!
2007-01-31 04:58:47 · answer #4 · answered by forge close folks 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can imagine a singularity has no before. Dimensions, including 3 dimension in space and one dimension in time, were created after the Big Bang, not before.
AS you mentioned, energy gave birth of elementary particle. I came up with nonlinear equations and had abandoned them years ago.
If the cyclic universe or multiverse exited, then singularity stuff? we can give a second thought.
2007-01-31 13:03:59 · answer #5 · answered by chanljkk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people think the big bang was made by god. Others think the big bang made god. I personally think god was made by man. It however follows that life will forever remain an enigma. Regardless of our origin, life can be enjoyed to the full by marvelling at the wonders of creation that surround us. The question of who or what happened in the beginning is becoming less important than what will happen in the end. We have no control of the past and the future is uncertain. Hopefully one day man will realise that the planet is worth more that wealth, in fact the only true wealth lies in the health of our planet.
2007-01-31 09:10:48 · answer #6 · answered by wizatronic 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
according to quantum theory,the Universe was created from vacuum,becuz the apparently quiescent vacuum is not really empty at all, it is possible for an electron and a positron to materialize from the vacuum, exist for a brief flash of time and then disappear into nothingness so the Universe is a result of a vacuum fluctuation,it started in the totally empty geometry and then made a quantum tunneling transition to a non-empty state.
2007-01-31 05:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is meaningless.
The big bang was the creation of time as well as space so there was no before. Just for completeness there is no outside either.
2007-01-31 05:42:30 · answer #8 · answered by m.paley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, 'cos only proveable valid science makes sense, anything else is 'could there really be fairies'. if the advent is in us then devise an experiment to find it
2007-01-31 05:56:36 · answer #9 · answered by N D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe has been expanding and contracting over and over since always. Each time it contracts there's a big bang and it expands till it starts to contract again, and on and on and on.........
2007-01-31 05:07:29 · answer #10 · answered by Dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as said by the latest discovery that were 7 demintion in the universal and that mean my friend there were a life before the earth being constracted
2007-01-31 05:03:04 · answer #11 · answered by mohamed adam 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋